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Founded in 1985, Carolina Physicians' Health Plan (CPHP), a health maintenance organization (HMO), almost floundered. With new CEO Bob Greczyn at the helm, Healthsource, Inc., which purchased CPHP, now ranks second among the state's HMOs.
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Due to North Carolina's revenue collections, the state budget seems more and more likely to contain a significant surplus.
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3965
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The Golf Club at Ballentyne Resort in Charlotte was voted the best new course of 1998 by the golf panel of the magazine NORTH CAROLINA. It represents a new trend in courses. Instead of being the centerpiece of a residential development, the course is surrounded by a resort/business park.
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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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3792
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Reidsville's Chinqua-Penn Plantation is Rockingham County's main tourist attraction. Built in the 1920s by Betsy and Thomas Jefferson Penn, the 27-room mansion is a blend of gardens, architecture, and works of art.
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3588
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The state's ten best golf courses are judged. Pinehurst No. 2 continues to be the most admired course. However, Pinehurst No. 8, designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 1996, attracts attention as it makes the top ten for the first time.
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3923
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The Firm Award, established in 1998 by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, recognizes state firms creating outstanding architecture over a ten-year period. O'Brien/Atkins Associates, P.A., based in the Research Triangle Park, is the inaugural award winner.
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3920
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The American Institute of Architects' North Carolina Gold Medal was created in 1998 to recognize an outstanding career as an architect. Winston-Salem architect Lloyd Walter is the first recipient of the award.
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The Winston-Salem architectural firm of Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce received the 1999 AIA North Carolina Firm Award. The award is given to the firm producing quality architecture and having a high level of customer satisfaction for a ten-year period. The firm was founded in 1965.
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Architect J. Hyatt Hammond of Greensboro received the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal, the highest award given to a state architect. The medal is in recognition of outstanding accomplishments or a distinguished career. Hammond, 73, has spent almost fifty years in the field of architecture.
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8408
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Diana Beasley, a biology teacher at Hickory High School, was named the 2006 North Carolina Teacher of the Year in May. Beasley has twenty-four years of experience, seventeen in her current position. She has received several awards and recognitions throughout her teaching career. She received her BS in Science Education from the University of Virginia.
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8412
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John Greene, Sr., of John Greene Chrysler Dodge Jeep in Morganton, was selected to receive the prestigious Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award for 2006 in North Carolina. The dealership is in its third generation of ownership, and Greene's grandchildren work part time while in school. Greene was one of sixty-six dealers selected from over 19,500 nationwide nominations to receive the award.
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3491
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Since the General Assembly passed the William S. Lee Quality Jobs and Expansion Act in 1996, 21 companies indicated the legislation was instrumental in their decision to relocate to the state. Companies include Corning, Inc. and Polar Plastics.
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2557
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Because of the large expenses of traditional pension plans, many of the state's small and mid-sized companies are using 401(k)s to help employees in retirement planning.
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29167
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The North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management estimates that there will be a budget shorfall for the 1992 fiscal year in the form of $1.038 billion, if all state programs are funded in full.
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