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Starr, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000): 173
Housing Units (2000): 82
Land area (2000): 1.481141 sq. miles (3.836138 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.481141 sq. miles (3.836138 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68875
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.377983 N, 82.693870 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29684
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Starr
Starr -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 53597
Housing Units (2000): 17589
Land area (2000): 1223.024323 sq. miles (3167.618319 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.255145 sq. miles (16.200751 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1229.279468 sq. miles (3183.819070 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 26.452677 N, 98.774474 W
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Starr, TX
Starr County
Starr County, TX
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Starr

Starr may refer to:

Starr (surname)

Starr is a family name, originating from the pre- Modern English word starre or sterre, meaning "star". Notable people with the surname include:

Starr (law)

Starr, or starra, was a term used in pre-14th-century England for the contract or obligation of a Jew. It derives from the Hebrew shtar, שטר, document.

By an ordinance of Richard I, no English starr was valid unless deposited in one of certain repositories, the best-known of which was the King's exchequer at Westminster. It was once speculated that the room where these were kept became known as the " starr-chamber" as a result, although this theory is dismissed by the OED.

Usage examples of "starr".

He added that Starr had been placed as solicitor general, the lawyer who argues Supreme Court cases for the government, for the express purpose of moving him to the Supreme Court if a vacancy occurred.

Winston Starr, 48, was not surprised that he was asked to be the new independent counsel.

Reagan had appointed Starr a judge on the District of Columbia Federal Appeals Court in 1983 at the age of 37, then the youngest appointee to that court.

Baptist minister from Texas, Starr was a dutiful, even pious figure, balding, with glasses, a Mister Rogers manner and a reputation for patience.

Since the high court ruled in 1988 that the independent counsel law was constitutional, Starr agreed to take the Whitewater post.

Kendall thought that it would probably force Starr to start from scratch.

Kendall had been overjoyed at the Starr opinion, which concluded that the disputed article was largely true and endorsed aggressive investigative reporting.

Kendall found Starr smooth, witty, polished, hardly a Republican zealot.

Recently Cutler had debated Starr on television about presidential immunity in civil cases.

The problem, Cutler said, was that Starr probably would have to revisit everything that Fiske had done.

Carville said he wanted to challenge Starr publicly as an obvious partisan.

Panetta that public criticism of the new independent counsel would antagonize Starr and wind up hurting the president.

August 10, Clinton was first asked in public what he thought about the Starr appointment.

Fiske had accomplished, Starr concluded he had to reopen the Foster death investigation.

Washington legal playbook: never join the issue, never have an all-out fight with Starr or the congressional committees.