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Runzheimer International, a management consulting firm, has rated Fayetteville the nation's best business travel bargain for 1997, out of 200 cities surveyed. Items compared included ground transportation, hotels, and restaurant meals.
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The state ranks fifth in the nation for older individuals seeking a retirement location. Around 20,000 retirees move to the state every year. This creates a demand for services and products, including real estate and banking, that benefit local economies.
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Created in New Bern by pharmacist Caleb Bradham, Pepsi-Cola is celebrating its 100th anniversary. A number of commemorations are planned, including giving one share of Pepsi stock to the first New Year's baby born in each hospital in the Carolinas.
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Coastal Carolina has hundreds of miles of beaches, from the Outer Banks to Wilmington, that offer vacationing newcomers and old-timers numerous activities and places to enjoy and explore.
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Women are an emerging force in the business world. For example, firms owned by women in the state grew ninety-four percent between 1987 and 1996. Sales from these companies rose 200 percent and employment 140 percent.
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The state ranks tenth among states that export products. Supporting those trading efforts are a number of organizations and agencies, including the N.C. Departments of Commerce and Agriculture, the State Ports Authority, and the N.C. World Trade Association.
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Job-site safety programs teach employees that staying safe on the job is the bottom line. Program effectiveness is seen in the statewide decline in workplace accidents and in the almost thirty percent drop in the cost of employer- paid insurance premiums.
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In the 1960s, Scotland County had few manufacturers. Now, having made investments in its infrastructure and also having a large, well-trained labor force, the county's industries manufacture electronics, mobile homes, and golf grips.
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Once a quiet crossroads community, Cary is now the state's seventh-largest municipality, with a population of 85,000 and major companies, including MCI and Siemens. Howard S. Johnson, who has been Cary Chamber of Commerce president for twelve years, has played a pivotal role in this transformation.
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A number of promising businesses fail to attract investors partly because of the low number of venture capital firms and the value of the funds. In 1997, the state ranked 16th nationally, with $202 million in venture capital invested. California was first with $4.9 billion. The state's largest sixteen funds are listed.
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11.Where Town and Gown Go Hand in Hand by Wood, Suzanne M. North Carolina Vol. 56 Issue 9, Sept 1998
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3878
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St. Andrews College and Laurinburg enjoy a unique relationship between town and gown. Faculty members serve on the chamber of commerce and school boards, managers and executives from local businesses and industry serve as adjunct faculty members, and students often find part of their classwork in plants and offices in the county.
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A decision by leaders of Laurinburg and Maxton to purchase at the end of World War II a military training center consisting of 4,500 acres and an airport impacts on the community's economy in the 1990s. Laurinburg/ Maxton Industrial Park now occupies 1,900 acres; runway expansions are attractive to current and relocating companies.
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David McRae's decision to enter the field of physical therapy was influenced by a bout with polio he contracted when he was four years old. In 1976, he came to Greenville, North Carolina, to set up the rehabilitation department in the soon-to-open Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Since 1989, he has been the hospital's CEO.
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Rising costs of HMOs make it difficult for a number of small businesses to offer health insurance plans to their employees. Options in dealing with rising costs include joining an alliance, such as Caroliance, and working with a benefits consultant to get the best deal possible.
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Pat Corso, president and CEO of Pinehurst Resort, has spent the last ten years bringing the over one hundred-year-old resort back to its former glory. So successful has be been that in June, 1999, Pinehurst will be just the second southern golf course ever to host a U.S. Open.
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