My manager and coach Tex have been outstanding this year and backed me all the way, being there for me when nobody else was.

BBC: March: Jane Couch

Karen Singh, a 33-year-old nurse from Dallas, Tex.

FORBES: Zapped!

Reinhart, 48, is the chief executive of Luminary Micro, a three-year-old semiconductor firm in Austin, Tex.

FORBES: Smarter, Cheaper

After Mr. Tex burned, fair patrons placed flowers and get-well cards in a makeshift shrine at Big Tex circle, a landscaped mound where he perched every year.

WSJ: In Dallas, a Makeover for 'Big Tex'

At least a dozen are in the pipeline this year, says Halter Financial Group, an Argyle, Tex. consultancy that specializes in the transaction.

FORBES: Through The Back Door

Earlier this year Dow moved to hedge future gas demand at its giant Freeport, Tex. complex by investing in a liquefied natural gas import terminal.

FORBES: Gasp

In the U.S. an investor lawsuit pending in a state court in Houston, Tex. argues that Goldman, in advising pipeline operator Kinder Morgan in a going-private buyout last year, shortchanged public shareholders.

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