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4974
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Corning, Inc., is building the world's largest fiber plant near Concord in Cabarrus County. The project will create 475 new jobs by 2004 and will account for almost $1 billion in county tax value. The plant makes fiber optic cable, which is used to transmit data in high-speed communications networks.
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5016
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Dr. Algeania Freeman has been named Livingstone College's eleventh president. She is also the first female president of the 1,100-student institution. Livingstone, a private, church-supported, historically black college, was founded in 1879.
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Hugh McColl, CEO of NationsBank, retired April 25, 2001. He is credited with building the bank into the nation's largest. Named CEO of NationsBank's predecessor, NCNB, in 1983, McColl took a bank with $12 billion in assets and built it, through mergers and acquisitions, into one with assets of $642 billion and 140,000 employees.
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In the last eighteen months Cleveland County has lost 900 jobs, and in January 2001, its unemployment rate topped 8.2 percent. However, an incentives package offered Wal-Mart by Cleveland County and the city of Shelby will soon reverse that. The company will begin construction of a huge distribution center in 2001. When completed in 2002, the center will employ 500. It is Cleveland County's largest industrial expansion in forty years.
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North Carolina has a long history of wine making, dating back to Sir Walter Raleigh and his Roanoke Colony. Today there are 250 vineyards and 21 wineries in the state, with more in the planning stages. In 2000, over 500,000 gallons of wine were produced. North Carolina ranks tenth in the nation in wine production and twelfth in grape production. Annual retail sales of wine is $25 million.
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When some school systems have a school construction design that meets their meets, they often reuse it in constructing other buildings. The architect still does design work to make sure the plan meets new guidelines and site conditions. Advantages to reuse include saving design fees and reduced time to complete construction. Williams-Tracy describes how Pender County and Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Systems reuse school construction plans.
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S & D Coffee Co. of Concord, which has been owned by the Davis family since 1927, is the country's third largest supplier to the food-service industry. The company filled this niche when brands like Maxwell House abandoned food-service for supermarket sales. Recently the company named its first non- family member CEO, Ron Hinson, who started with the company on a truck route twenty-one years ago.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 10, Oct 2000,
p56-57, 59-60, 62-65, il, por
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