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3940
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Introduction of computers and automation into the textile industry has allowed it not only to survive but also thrive at home and in the international marketplace.
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4056
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Greensboro faces a water shortage and has put mandatory water conservation measures into effect. The shortage affects economic developer's ability to sell the city to potential businesses. Even those with small water needs of 75,000 gallons are being turned down. One source of relief is construction of the Randleman Dam, first proposed in 1937, which would create a 48 million gallon reservoir.
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3529
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The manufacturing industry provides over thirty percent of the gross state product and twenty-five percent of its jobs. Textiles rank first, followed by furniture, industrial machinery, electronics, food, apparel, and chemicals.
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24390
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The SAS Institute in Cary, North Carolina, is leading the way in how companies can use technology to make business more streamlined. The company features automated calling services, electronic mail service, and an uninterruptible power source that can keep equipment running even when the power goes off.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 7, July 1988,
p44-47, il
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24251
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The Piedmont Triad is made up of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point and is North Carolina's manufacturing center. Grain and textile mills, as well as furniture manufacturers, make up most of the business in this area.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 21 Issue 4, April 2001,
p54-63, il
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7265
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When members of the New York Knickerbockers baseball team marched off to fight in the Civil War, they took the game and rules with them and played during their time in camps. James Constantine, a divinity student at Duke University, now serves as chaplain of the 26th Regiment of North Carolina Troops Reactivated. He wants to develop a vintage baseball team that will play the game as Civil War soldiers played it.
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15582
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By day Frank Lanning is a product designer for Yale Security Systems in Monroe. By night and on weekends he is Levi Ledbetter, arms merchant, of the Civil War. His business, C&L Canteen Works is North Carolina's largest volume Civil War sutler (merchant), catering to a growing market of reenactment hobbyists. Customers, who can chose items from a list of two hundred come from all around the country and from England and Germany.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 7 Issue 6, June 1987,
p62-63, 65, 67, il, por
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6415
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No major Civil War battles were fought in the North Carolina mountains; however, many mountain people did declare either for the North or the South, and evidence remains of the encounters that took placed there. Johnson recounts several of these, including stories of a Confederate Cherokee regiment led by a crazed white man, women bushwhackers who posed as men to join the army, and Union Captain Miles Keough, who captured the town of Boone and later died with Custer at the Little Big Horn.
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Rick Hendrick of Charlotte is the principal owner of twenty-two automobile dealerships in eight states, making him the nation's third-largest car dealer. He also owns four racing teams on NASCAR's Winston Cup stock-car circuit and is a minority owner in the new Charlotte NBA team, the Hornets. Although he won't say how much he's worth, Business Week has estimated his net worth at $100 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 7 Issue 9, Sept 1987,
p22-26, 29, 31-32, il, por
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15590
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Johnson describes the workings of two pickle packing companies in North Carolina that have captured almost all of the state's pickle market--Mount Olive Pickle Company of Mount Olive and Cates Pickles of Faison. The two companies are located less than eight miles apart in the heart of the state's tobacco, soybean, pepper, and cucumber country. Nationwide the pickle market generates over $1 billion, and the two companies work hard at getting a slice of it.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 7 Issue 10, Oct 1987,
p32-36, 39, il, por
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