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15092
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Simon examines the problem created by the larger number of veterinarians graduating not only at North Carolina State University's School of Veterinary Medicine but also at other similar institutions across the nation with the number of pets and farms animals that are holding steady or increasing only slightly. The competition to care for these animals is forcing down prices they can charge and forcing veterinarians to face a lower standard of living.
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24384
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Group-insurance costs have skyrocketed since the 60s, and employers are looking for ways to keep employees healthy over the long term and keep treatment costs low. Businesses are pursuing various measures to combat rising health insurance costs.
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14873
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At 17, Reid Hoke was a jockey racing on tracks from New York to Oklahoma. Now he is pursuing a new career -- opening a brewery and bottling his own beer in Raleigh. The brewery will make unpasteurized German-style beer the old fashioned way. His company will be called the Raleigh Brewing Company, and its lager, Raleigh Pilsner.
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24398
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William E. Prather Jr., former Burger King executive, is now president of the Hardee’s restaurant chain. This article discusses the changes he has made to the chain since becoming president and how he hopes to increase revenues and penetrate the market.
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14890
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Once known as the capital of the tobacco industry, Durham is now the capital of the country's diet industry. Each year approximately 3,000 people come to lose excess pounds at five nationally recognized weight-reduction programs. Dieters range from celebrities to housewives to CEOs of major corporations. Besides losing weight, dieters spend million for programs, accommodations, and services. Estimates place the amount spent at $60 million annually.
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Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 6 Issue 4, Apr 1986, p30-32, 34, 36-37, il, por Periodical Website
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14886
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Pucillo, a former basketball star at North Carolina State University, owns and operates Lou Pucillo, Inc., a liquor brokerage firm. He and his four salesmen sell exclusively to the state's ABC stores. In 1976, his first year of operation, he sold 250,000 cases, and in 1985 sales had increased to 600,000 cases. North Carolina does not buy liquor in a central location, having instead 145 buying units. There are twelve other brokers with sales staff in the state competing with Pucillo, who works solely on commission.
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15090
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Dr. Alan Kronhaus and his wife Cornelia Maurer founded KRON Medical of Chapel Hill, a temporary physician placement service. Over the past six years they have built the company into the country's largest firm supplying temporary physicians. There are usually about one hundred doctors on assignment at everything from one-person practices to large teaching hospitals. Assignments can be in-country and out.
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15112
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On September 1, 1986, a new law raised the legal age for purchasing beer in North Carolina to 21. Beer distributors, retailers, restaurateurs, and tavern owners comment on how the new law is affecting their businesses. Statistically North Carolina is not a big beer drinking state, with about fifty-five million cases sold in 1985. On a per capita beer consumption ranking by state, North Carolina is seventh from the bottom with 19.2 gallons per person.
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Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 6 Issue 12, Dec 1986, p14-16, 18, 20, 22, il Periodical Website
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16335
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Georgia-based Charter Medical Corp. has four psychiatric hospitals in the state, making it North Carolina's largest private provider of drug-and alcohol-abuse treatment for the state's estimated 214,000 alcoholics and 19,500 drug addicts. The biggest problem faced by Charter and other providers like Amethyst in Charlotte and Laurinburg is that the people who need the services many times resist any suggestion that there is anything wrong with them.
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Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 7, July 1990, p32-34, 36-38, 40, 42, il Periodical Website