Shell also controls Tejas, an American gas-pipeline firm, and Coral, which is the fifth-largest gas marketer in North America.

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But he opted instead to join a local software start-up called Tejas Networks.

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Now, this project was started in the 1980s and the first HAL Tejas is supposed to enter service in 2014.

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Houston Tejas, a fave of those fatty-city lists is trying to better that rep via a new system that allows parents to track and control what their kids eat.

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Now one of our main aerospace companies, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, has been developing a multirole fighter aircraft called the HAL Tejas which has been developed to replace the old Russian MiG fighters.

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