Bill Houston thoroughly enjoyed beer, but there was a point where it started to stick in his throat.
The Greater Houston Partnership, an alliance of hard-nosed businessmen that looms large locally, has worked well with Bill White, Houston's business-minded but green mayor, to support his clean-up of the city's air and water.
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The mayor of Houston, Bill White, is considered a strong Democratic candidate for governor in 2010.
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Returning Valero staff would be violating direct evacuation orders from Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Houston Mayor Bill White.
Senator John McCain of Arizona and Representative Bill Archer from west Houston, Texas, both powerful national figures, have protested.
Houston Mayor Bill White said it was essential to get the jam cleared before heavy rains and wind begin Friday afternoon.
The cast in the film includes: Partovi, Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat, Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Drew Houston of Dropbox, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, Gabe Newell of Valve, Ruchi Sanghvi of Dropbox, will.i.am, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
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But let's say the Internet sales-tax bill becomes law, and Senator Cruz is sitting at home in Houston, doing some online shopping.
If dropping out of college was a watershed moment for the likes of Bill Gates, Michael Dell and Mark Zuckerberg, then staying in was equally transformative for Houston, particularly his fraternity experience.
Duncan's plea agreement, details of which will be announced today in U.S. federal court in Houston, was not unexpected and seems the inevitable outcome of Andersen trying to bill him as the rogue responsible for the decision to shred and delete thousands of documents.
He left Houston in 1991 to become the defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns under head coach Bill Belichick, now of the New England Patriots.
Married, with a daughter, and scrambling to keep financially afloat, he talked to a college friend, Bill Morgan, who was working with another Missouri buddy of theirs, Ken Lay, at Houston Natural Gas.
Houston's oil execs might not appreciate that much of the funding of the bailout bill's green energy provisions will come through raising taxes on oil and gas production.
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