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36250
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Winston-Salem based Hanesbrand takes its work overseas. By selling products destined for landfills to recyclers, its helps to provide a new lease on life for items later used by medical teams offering free medical care in the Caribbean and Central America. Courtesy of teaming up with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, patients from places such as the Dominican Republic receive a new lease on life through medical treatments and procedures.
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36255
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The life sciences sector provides job growth for areas such as research, development, and manufacturing. It also fuels funding ventures such as business loans from the Biotech Center. Collectively, this data measures the economic and occupational impact this sector makes on North Carolina.
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36285
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North Carolina’s contribution to industries such as biotechnology and its quality of life may define it as a wonderful place to live and work. Supporting this belief were six experts, offering insights about its place in the biotech global market, the importance of industry in the state, appeals the area has to international biotech companies, the importance of workforce training to international biotech companies, and what will keep such companies in North Carolina.
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31170
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This article examines the fiscal implications, such as tax base, land use and public investment, of both high and low-density development patterns. Simmons suggests promoting private investments will drive private investors.
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Carolina Planning (NoCar HT 393 N8 C29x), Vol. 37 Issue , 2012, p, il
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33113
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Winston-Salem has achieved national recognition for its quality of life, due to the city’s “first families” or the corporate citizens who built successful industries. With a strong economic development program now in full gear, Winston-Salem continues to implement a policy for planned growth. This article covers the history of Winston-Salem’s accomplishments and discusses current efforts to broaden the city’s economic and political base.
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15884
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For the past decade, the development of a major arts complex has been underway in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The project is unique in two ways: it represents a pioneering effort to emphasize the arts in the central city revitalization process, and it illustrates the importance of cooperation in effecting redevelopment objectives.
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Carolina Planning (NoCar HT 393 N8 C29x), Vol. 10 Issue 2, Fall 1984, p18-23, f
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17908
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Winston-Salem was a small but growing city of 143,000 in 1966. Many worked in the city's tobacco and textile industry but remained below the poverty line due to the low wage and seasonal nature of the jobs. To curb crime and promote economic development of its citizens, Winston-Salem organized the Office of Economic Opportunity with its main branch protect \"Experiment in Self-Reliance;\" both served as models for the state.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 33 Issue 3, Nov 1966, p9-14
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30937
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In 1958, Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina were the home to 230 industrial manufacturing entities, employing over 35,000 people. New and expanded industries have amounted to over $62 million in the past five years, and includes nationally known companies such as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, P.H. Hanes Knitting Company, and Western Electric.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 16 Issue 6, November 1958, p34, 36, 38, 40, por