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The Unbankables
All over Dallas are working-class dreamers with more will than wallet, would-be entrepreneurs who’d start their own businesses if only they had savings, good credit, home equity. That’s what brings them to the PLAN Fund.
October 1, 2007 | by Michael Hall | Feature
The Dark Knight
Inside the fantastic rise and catastrophic fall of Sir Allen Stanford—that high-flying egomaniac with the offshore bank, gold helicopter, Caribbean island, and knack for disposing of other people’s money.
May 1, 2009 | by Mimi Swartz | Feature
Store Wars!
Two luxury retailers: Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. One desirable market: Houston. The fight for the hearts and credit cards of couture clotheshorses like Lynn Wyatt and Carolyn Farb officially begins next month, but already the fur is flying.
August 1, 1997 | by Skip Hollandsworth | Feature
How Enron Blew It
The Houston-based energy giant put the pursuit of profits ahead of all other corporate goals, which fostered a climate of workaholism and paranoia. And that was only part of the problem.
November 1, 2001 | by Mimi Swartz | Accounting
A Boy and His Airline
No kid ever had more fun with his favorite toy than Herb Kelleher has in running Southwest Airlines.
April 1, 1989 | by | Profile
Ad Men at War
How the battle for the Southwest Airlines account turned into a long-awaited showdown between Texas’s two top agencies.
November 1, 1990 | by Skip Hollandsworth | Business
Hostile Makeover
Mary Kay Ash and Jinger Heath have made fortunes getting women to buy and sell their beauty proucts. But no lipstick or powder can conceal the ugliness between these Dallas cosmetics queens.
November 1, 1995 | by Skip Hollandsworth | Feature

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