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United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
F I L E D
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
February 14, 2005
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
Ch...
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 99-50152
Summary Calendar
JOHN GOODE, doing business as MR. BONES BBQ,
Plaintiff-...
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NEW YORK -- The rating action referenced in Fitch Ratings' July 8, 2011, press release (Fitch to Confirm 'F1+' Rating on City of Austin, TX Comb Utili...
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Affirmative action case
Black entrepreneur John Goode lost his food service contract with firm with a contract with the city of Austin, TX, because he refused to be registered officially as black. Ironically, his contract was cancelled because the firm was complying with a city program intended to boost contracts with minority businesses.
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NEW YORK -- The rating confirmation described in the March 24, 2010 press release, which relates to a substitution of the letter of credit (LOC) suppo...
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The city of Austin, TX, is sometimes called Silicon Hills, a take-off on Silicon Valley in California and Silicon Prairie, a name given to Dallas-Fort Worth in the late 1970s. It is a high-tech city, and their residents expect things to be high tech, says Denise Du Charme, chief information officer of the city's Capital Metro Transportation Authority. So when Capital Metro had the opportunity last year to automate its customer call centers with an interactive voice response (IVR) system, it jumped at the opportunity. Capital Metro's IVR system uses Genesys Telecommunications Labs' VoiceGenie speech recognition engine and other concatenated speech and text-to-speech technologies to give the city's 140,000 mass transit riders voice-enabled access to the full spectrum of traveler informati...
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NEW YORK -- On the effective date of March 29, 2010, Fitch Ratings will confirm the short-term 'F1+' rating assigned to the City of Austin, Texas $350...
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NEW ORLEANS, April 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, Mrs. Laura Bush, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao and National Urban League President and CEO, Marc H. Morial announced a $20 million grant extension to the National Urban League's successful "Urban Youth Empowerment Program" to continue providing at-risk African American youth with job training, job placement and educational skills building. The two-year, 2006-2008 grant will expand the program to enable Urban League affiliates to offer assistance, job training and job placement in the Gulf Coast region and Katrina impacted areas including New Orleans, LA., Houston, TX., Birmingham, AL., Austin, TX., Jackson, MS., Oklahoma City, OK., and Dallas, TX.
The Department of Labor's extension of the grant will enable the Urban League affil...
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Dr. Thomas Edward Bailey, Sr. of Augusta, GA died Monday, January 4, 2010 at Kentwood Nursing Home. A native of Augusta, Dr. Bailey graduated from Augusta College and earned his M.D. in 1939 from the Medical College of Georgia. He was a member of the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity. He served his country in the Pacific Theatre in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in WW II. He was a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Bailey was an outstanding pediatrician noted for his gentle nature and keen sense of humor. He cared for three generations of children in Augusta. He was Chief of Pediatrics at University Hospital. He was a member of various professional and civic boards and committees throughout his career. Dr. Bailey was a member of the Augusta Cou...