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Focuses on recycling and waste management activities in Dallas, Texas highlighted at the 1999 Waste Expo in the city. Tours featuring waste management facilities in the city; Companies such as Balcones Recycling and Rock-Tenn Recycling participating in the guided tours.

Provides information on the use of cellulose by researchers at the University of Texas in Austin, as the main ingredient for making electronic paper. Typical strategy for making e-paper; Goal of the researchers for using cellulose; Paper-making process through the use of cellulose.

Reports that the Harris County, Texas Toll Road Authority will sell commercial papers under a multi-million dollar short-term borrowing program approved by County commissioners in September 2001. Ways in which proceeds of the sale will be utilized; Dealer and bond counsel for the sale; Ratings of the commercial papers by various rating agencies.

Reports the plans of North Texas Tollway Authority and Harris County Toll Road Authority to implement commercial paper program in Dallas, Texas. Benefits of the commercial paper program to the authority; Rating of the program by the Standard & Poor's; Proceeds of the program.

Reports the efforts of bond market professionals to bring normalcy in Texas after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. Intention to roll out due commercial papers in Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport; Request for money market funds; Confidence on the ability of market to recover.

Focuses on University of Texas-Austin's efforts to seek papers for a March 1980 seminar on Libraries and Culture. Exploration of role and significance of graphic records in society; Paper requirements.

Reports the selling of commercial paper by the Texas Public Finance Authority in Dallas, Texas. Finance of government projects; Acquisition of liquidity for note program; Conversion of long-term debt.

Discusses the harsh treatment the US Border Patrol subjects Latinos and Mexican-American citizens to in El Paso, Texas, which is being met with some resistance. The type of abuse the Border Patrol inflicts on detainees; The lawsuit brought by seven Mexican-Americans against the Border Patrol; How Federal District Judge Lucius Bunton ruled in their favor; The stern warning issued to the Border Patrol; Details of Murillo v. Musegades, INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service); More.

Reports on the decisions made by the Academic Library of St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas to replace printed indexes with electronic ones. Options; Indexes cancelled; Things considered in the selection.

Report that United States President George Bush has decided his presidential papers should go to a Texas university, but has not yet decided which one.

Reports on the efforts of General Libraries of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas at the Undergraduate Library to help students pick and research topics for a mandatory library paper. Development and cataloging of a list of topics that reflect interests and concerns of student researchers; Examination of the subject access to topics to make sure of predictable subject headings and sufficient cross-references.

Assesses the competition among Dallas and Fort Worth newspapers for market share in Arlington, Texas. Special events sponsored by newspapers; Operations of `Arlington Star-Telegram'; `The Arlington Morning News' as insert of `The Dallas Morning News'; Similarities of the expansion strategies of different papers; Growth of the Arlington community.

Reports that Dallas Area Rapid Transit will sell 500 million dollars of commercial paper in Dallas, Texas. Long-range capital finance plan; Revenue bonds approved by the voters that will be sold.

Reports on the alternatives developed by 'The Dallas Morning News' to wean itself away from cold-call telemarketing. Rationale of the subscription and retention methods chosen; Collaboration with retail stores and apartment complexes; Search for long-term customers.

Reports that Phoenix, Texas city officials are preparing to close a commercial paper sale that will provide interim financing for water system upgrades and expansion. First use by the city of commercial paper as a short-term financing tool; Rating given by Moody's Investors Service to the water system revenue bond anticipation notes.

Reports on the use of a commercial paper program by the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Board for security needs. Worth of the paper program; Security measures to be implemented through the program; Loss suffered by the airline in 2001.

Reports on the plans of Quebecor subsidiary Donohue Inc. to modernize its newsprint and specialty paper mill in Texas. Capital invested by Donohue for the modernization plans; Details on the project; Amount planned to invest by Donohue in its mill in Sheldon, Texas.

Reports that Fort Worth, Texas is seeking permission from the Texas general public to expand its commercial paper program to fund the general obligation projects approved by voters in a bond election on February 1998. Purpose of the commercial paper program; Replacement of the short-term borrowing with long-term bonds; Main criteria for gaining approval for the program.

Reports on the study conducted by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin to extract cellulose from a microorganism called cyanobacteria. Applications of cellulose; Sources of cellulose; Characteristics of cyanobacteria.

Reports that Houston, Texas plans to sell $258.59 million of public improvement bonds on November 20, 2002 in a negotiated deal in an effort to defease part of the city's outstanding commercial paper and to refund most of its debt from several annexed municipal utility districts. Co-financial advisers of the city; Co-bond counsel for the deal; Districts annexed by the city.

Reports on the acquisition of the papers of Henry Washington Benham, a colonel in the Corps of Engineers, by the University Libraries' Special Collections Division at the University of Texas at Arlington. What papers include; Benham's military talent; Rare copy of his recollections of his service.

Reports that the papers of Americo Paredes, scholar and humanist, have formed part of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. Paredes' educational attainment; Interest in Mexican folklore; Best-known works.

Reports on the acquisition of the Amon G. Carter Papers by Texas Christian University from the Amon G. Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Materials included in the collection.

Focuses on Texas-based Dallas Area Rapid Transit's plan to launch a second round of taxable commercial paper issuance on June 26, 1998, to fund capital projects. Funds for the expansion of a light rail system; Purchase of new buses; Letter of credit providers.

Reports the marketing of tax and revenue commercial notes by the Texas state. Authorization of the state to use the sale of the notes as operating capital; Competition among ratings agencies for the buying of the notes; Traditional ways of in preparing cash-flow projections.

Reports on the sale of from a multimillion-dollar taxable commercial paper authorization by University of Texas. Plan of the university to issue its first-ever taxable debt; Purpose of proceeds from the issue; Acquisition of an office building in the Houston Medical Center.

Announces the plan of Harris County in Texas to sell general obligation bonds within November 2003. Types of bonds include in the deal; View of Edwin Harrison, director of finance for the county, on the proposed deal; Projects that would benefit from the sale of bonds.

Discusses the water and wastewater system revenue refunding bonds to be sold by the state of Austin in the first week of February 2003. Purpose behind the sale of bonds; Insurers of the deal; Program that provides interim finance for the state's capital needs.

Reports on the expansion of Dallas, Texas-based American Consolidated Media with the purchase of three newspapers from Highlands Publications.

Reports on the acquisition of the papers of former United States Congressman Eligio de la Garza by the University of Texas Pan-American in Edinburg, Texas. Number of boxes of archival materials received by the university; Materials included in the boxes.

Announces the acquisition of the papers of the late Western author Roy Davis Holt Sr. by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Materials included in the collection.

Focuses on a Houston debt issue that could total as much as $250 million of general obligation current-refunding bonds. Purpose of the bonds; Sale date; Maturity; Pledge; Redemption provision; Ratings; Siebert Branford Shank & Co. as senior manager; Co-financial advisers; Co-bond counsel.

Informs that Ratcliff Recycling Inc. has signed a two-year agreement with Texas Instruments to collect and process the company's waste and corrugated paper for recycling. Terms of the deal; CEO Billy Ratcliff.

Focuses on the acquisition of the papers of British playwright John Osborne by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Details about Osborne's works including `The Entertainer' and `A Patriot for Me'; When drafts for `Look Back in Anger' were acquired.

Reports that the papers of George Wilkins Kendall, a writer, former war correspondent and rancher, are available for research at the Special Collections Division of the University of Texas at Arlington. Includes correspondence, photographs, books and artifacts; Kendall's correspondence with the `New Orleans Picayune' which he co-founded with news from the front lines of Mexican War.

Reports on the acquisition by the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries' Special Collections Division of the personal and business papers of Keith Hayes Kahle.

Reports on the acquisition of the papers of journalist, historian and commentator A.C. Greene by the Special Collections Division of the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Collection features.