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  Bill Clements - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clements ran for reelection in 1982, but he was defeated by Democratic Attorney General Mark White by more than 200,000 votes because of sagging economic indicators and weak support from minority voters, who customarily choose Democratic candidates.
Clements' second term was marred by his admission, shortly after his election, that the SMU board had been aware and approved of continuing payments to athletes in violation of NCAA rules.
Clements finished his term, opted not to run for a third term as governor, and was succeeded in 1991 by Democratic state Treasurer Dorothy Ann Willis Richards (1933-2006).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Clements   (850 words)

  
 Bill Clements biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Clements ran for reelection in 1982, but was defeated by Mark White because of sagging economic numbers.
Clements then served as chairman of the board of governors of Southern Methodist University before opting to run for governor again in 1986, where he was victorious again.
Clements finished his term, opted not to run for governor again and was succeeded by Democrat Ann Richards in 1991.
bill-clements.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888   (192 words)

  
 Foley & Lardner LLP - Our People - William L. (Bill) Clements
Clements advises clients on internal compliance processes; specific transactions that may raise compliance concerns; internal businesses practices, such as parent-subsidiary relationships where one party is engaged in international commerce that is prohibited to the other; and mergers and acquisitions – including identifying and resolving potential compliance concerns in advance of closing.
Clements was the principal trade controls lawyer at GE, and in that capacity, he advised all of GE's industrial and financial business groups on U.S. laws and regulations relating to dual-use exports, munitions exports, economic sanctions, foreign boycotts and foreign corrupt practices.
Clements is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
www.foley.com /people/bio.aspx?employeeid=23567   (511 words)

  
 Clements Named Head Women's Volleyball Coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Clements replaces Bill Switala, who compiled a 154-122 record in eight seasons at Susquehanna.
A native of Stockton, California, Clements was an All-League selection at Lincoln High School as a setter and outside hitter.
After graduating from Puget Sound in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in music education, Clements coached high school volleyball in the Seattle area while earning a master’s degree in music education in 1998 and a Ph.D. in music education in June, both from the University of Washington.
www.susqu.edu /sports/releases/Fall02/vbclements.htm   (170 words)

  
 UT Regents and UT Southwestern dedicate new Bill
and Rita Clements Advanced Medical Imaging Building
Bill and Rita Clements gave $10 million to Southwestern Medical Foundation to complete the construction and equipping of a state-of-the-art research and clinical building, featuring modern imaging technologies, at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
One of the most important features of the Clements Building and its state-of-the-art equipment will be its ability to catalyze major cooperative projects involving UT Dallas and UT Arlington faculty members, who will occupy offices and laboratories in the building and work side-by-side in collaboration with their UT Southwestern colleagues.
Clements, other generous philanthropists, and state and federal leaders has enabled biomedical scientists, clinicians, engineers, physicists and computer scientists from UT Southwestern, UT Dallas, UT Arlington and other Texas institutions to join hands in using the most sophisticated technology available to solve the most complex problems of medicine for the 21st century," said Dr. Wildenthal.
www8.utsouthwestern.edu /utsw/cda/dept37389/files/321703.html   (1015 words)

  
 Texas Politics - Governors: Bill Clements
Clements stunned political observers when he won an upset victory to become the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction.
Clements was reelected in 1986, four years after his defeat against Democrat Mark White.
Clements spent much of his second term dealing with the continuing prison overcrowding problem.
texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu /html/exec/governors/28.html   (325 words)

  
 Texas Governors - Modern Texas - Part 2 - Texas State Library (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Clements served as deputy U.S. secretary of defense in the Nixon and Ford administrations.
Later years: Bill Clements became governor again in 1987.
Later years: White was defeated by Clements in the 1986 election and returned to private life after his term ended in January 1987.
www.tsl.state.tx.us.cob-web.org:8888 /governors/modern/page2.html   (972 words)

  
 Former Texas Governor Bill Clements Gives $1 Million For New Information Facility At SMU-In-Taos
Clements has continued to be actively engaged in the development of SMU-in-Taos and has provided more than $3.5 million, including the new $1 million gift, for property, facilities and programs at the Fort Burgwin campus.
Clements began his relationship with SMU in the mid 1930s, when he was an engineering student.
Clements, currently a private investor, served two terms as governor of Texas, from 1979-83 and again from1987-91.
www.smu.edu /newsinfo/releases/02122.html   (745 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - You can't handle the truth!
Clements, the chairman of SMU's Board of Governors from 1983 to 1986, told NCAA investigators in the mid-1980s that SMU was cleaning up its systematic program of illegal payments to players.
Clements said he told the NCAA, "'We are cleaning up the program.' So that is an absolute true statement.
In April 1985, Clements told the NCAA, "We will not tolerate any misbehavior whatsoever in the future." That, said NCAA enforcement director David Berst, was also clearly a lie.
espn.go.com /page2/s/list/lies.html   (1785 words)

  
 Esom Slone's Grist Mill
Bill Clements has done a great deal of restoration work connecting the water wheel to operate one pair of millstones and a generator.
Clements has a large collection of spare mill parts he has collected from mills in the area leftover from his efforts restoring his mill.
Up stream from the Clements Mill is the ruins of the Bonbrook Mill which was a large brick structure and was at one time an operating (commercial) merchant flour mill.
www.angelfire.com /journal/millrestoration/slonemill.html   (7136 words)

  
 Bill Clements: Electric Bassist - Musicians Who Happen 2 B dis-Abled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bill decided early on, one way or another, bass playing would be his path.
Clements has long received regional acclaim for his prolific style of bass playing, and has been favorably compared to such bass legends as Rocco Prestia and Jaco Pastorius.
Bill Clements Video: Bill Clements has just released a video clip from the recording session that will become his next audio release.
www.paralinks.net /musicians/BILLCLEMENTS.HTML   (245 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Well, Bill, the time between these two terms of yours was short enough to preserve the gains you had achieved, but it was long enough to prove just how right you were about what works for Texas.
Bill, Texas was in trouble, and Texas needed a leader, and Texas needed you.
To Bill and Rita, to you, and to Texas.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1989/89111003.html   (1623 words)

  
 CD Baby: BILL CLEMENTS: Undergroundalienbass
After losing the lower portion of his right arm in 1989, bassist Bill Clements has continued to play and develop a uniquely individual style.
Owing to such influences as Jaco Pastorius, Percy Jones, Rocco, and Charles Mingus, Bill's music is an expressive blend of jazz and rock.
Bill was featured in the June 2005 issue of Bass Player Magazine: "Frenetic with a unique sense of high energy mania underpinned by agitated technically curious bass lines.....Going places technically and musically that would be daring for most bassists."
cdbaby.com /cd/billclements   (276 words)

  
 Texas Monthly July 1987: The Best and The Worst Legislators
The deregulation bills merely flipped the decision from the Legislature to a couple of state agencies that have had the power, but not the inclination, to deregulate their industries all along.
In the Senate, where rules require that a bill must be supported by two thirds of the members before it can be debated, it is next to impossible to change the fate of a bill on the floor, but Glasgow was part of a team of senators who did it.
Getting into the spirit of the bill, Leonard practiced a bit of nondisclosure himself: He neglected to tell colleagues working on the bill that he had a special interest in it (he’s on the board of directors of a hospital holding company whose records would be closed by the bill).
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1987-07-01/feature4.php   (8540 words)

  
 Clements High School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William P. Clements High School, or more commonly known as Clements High School, is a public high school in Sugar Land within the U.S. state of Texas that is named after former Texas governor Bill Clements, and is a part of the Fort Bend Independent School District.
Clements is located in the Houston area with a large Hispanic population, thus the language is very useful in this region.
The three Clements concert bands have performed in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. in 1999, Carnegie Hall in New York City, NY in 2002, and in Symphony Hall in Chicago in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clements_High_School   (1317 words)

  
 Karl Rove was a strategist in Republican Bill Clements’ 1986 campaign to be governor of Texas
Karl Rove is a strategist in the Republican Bill Clements’ 1986 campaign to be governor of Texas.
There is strong evidence that (A) news of this bug turns the election in favor of Clements, and (B) Rove himself is responsible for the bug.
Hence, the moral character of Republican Clements is severely diminished in the eyes of the voter.
emptystare.com /Rovebug.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Barbara Clements — Dave Clements : ZoomInfo Business People Information
Bill Clements has taken a senior partnership position with Computability and will become directly involved with the development of new...
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Bill Clements rubs federal officials the wrong way in his outspoken opposition to U.S. policy in the context of the Border...
www.zoominfo.com /people/level2page7379.aspx   (1401 words)

  
 CMT.com : Vassar Clements : Legendary Fiddler Vassar Clements Dead at Age 77
Although Clements began his career as a bluegrass musician, his mercurial style encompassed jazz and country, and he recorded with a wide variety of musicians, including Paul McCartney, Dickey Betts, Bonnie Raitt, the Grateful Dead and the String Cheese Incident.
Born April 25, 1928, in Kinard, S.C., Clement began playing the fiddle at age 7 and was just 14 when began an association with Bill Monroe.
Clements gained an even wider audience after participating in the recording sessions for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1972 album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
www.cmt.com /artists/news/1507703/08162005/clements_vassar.jhtml   (587 words)

  
 Rita Clements
Rita Crocker Clements grew up on ranches in Kansas and Texas before attending Hockaday School in Dallas, Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas in Austin.
Rita Clements served as a Dallas Junior League president and state GOP organizer before she became the First Lade of the State of Texas.
Particular that the furnishings be 19 th century Texas and American antiques and historical pieces, she founded Friends of the Governor's Mansion to provide needed funding for the project.
www.twu.edu /firstladies/rita_clements.htm   (160 words)

  
 Noted Republicans enter party fray over tax plan
AUSTIN -- Former Gov. Bill Clements and other prominent Dallas Republicans on Tuesday jumped into an intraparty tax fight on the side of Gov. George W. Bush.
They urged lawmakers to vote for a $4 billion tax plan that is backed by Bush but is opposed by Texas Republican Chairman Tom Pauken and is giving fits to GOP legislators who have campaigned against raising taxes.
Clements, who signed a record, $5.6 billion tax bill in 1987 to help balance the state budget during a recession, also was unavailable.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/97/04/23/tax-bill.html   (797 words)

  
 Nauru99 Media Resource Center
In 1974 Clements joined the staff the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory where he has worked in various atmospheric and environmental groups as a research scientist, associate group leader, project manager, and team leader.
His research work has been in the areas of radon-222 as an atmospheric tracer, complex terrain meteorology, and atmospheric transport and diffusion.
Clements is currently the leader of the Tropical Western Pacific team in the Atmospheric and Climate Studies Group at Los Alamos and Program Manager for the US Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program's Tropical Western Pacific Locale.
www.arm.gov /science/nauru99/bios/clements.html   (167 words)

  
 TIME.com: 'Dollar Bill's" Friends Are Rich -- Oct. 11, 1982 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Billing himself as both a law-and-order candidate and a consumer advocate, he charges that Clements is insensitive to the needs of the workingman.
He may be seen as the candidate of "the Anglos and the big-business interests," as one Hispanic activist put it, but White is remembered as the attorney general who fought bilingual education and public schooling for children of illegal aliens.
White says Clements is "a clown" who uses "smear tactics." Clements says the attorney general "is an incompetent lawyer" who has lost most of his big cases.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,922989,00.html   (674 words)

  
 One of the nation's first 7-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging devices for human studies planned at UT Southwestern ...
The Clements funds will enable the building to be completed with the latest of modern equipment throughout.
Rita Crocker Clements was appointed to the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System in November 1996 by then Gov. George W. Bush and was reappointed by Gov. Rick Perry in April 2001.
Clements was named Distinguished Alumna of UT Austin in 1991.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-02/usmc-nam020906.php   (1015 words)

  
 mi-reporter.com - Pastor reaffirms faith through trip abroad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pastor Bill Clements of the Redeemer Lutheran Church on Mercer Island serves as a volunteer chaplain at Harborview Trauma Center in Seattle and in the King County Jail System.
It is interesting and rewarding work for Clements, but he doesn't face bombs, long distances travel and isolation from friends.
A former member of Clements' congregation, out of gratitude for counseling, gave the pastor the money to buy an airplane ticket to Manila and other members of the congregation made donations toward the cost of the trip.
www.mi-reporter.com /sited/story/html/209888   (495 words)

  
 World Class Warmoth Players!
Bill Clements fell in love with the bass guitar at 13, inspired by the usual suspects (Geddy, Jaco, Berlin).
Undeterred, Bill was gigging again in less than 3 months playing with only his left hand.
Bill's first record (undergroundalienbass) was reviewed in the June '05 issue of Bass Player magazine.
www.warmoth.com /worldclass/players.cfm?fuseaction=players_7   (300 words)

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