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5793
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A Navy plan to build a practice landing field in Washington or Craven Counties has Beaufort County residents up in arms. They feel it would damage the economic future of Beaufort County. Martin discusses arguments for and against the project.
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5794
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Using an old restored trolley car, Charlotte began a one-mile run in 1997, with more cars and a route extension anticipated. However, the project, which was supposed to be nonprofit with hardly any public expense, will cost taxpayers over $33 million. Martin discusses reasons for this.
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5795
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Eleven years ago Ruth Shaw resigned her job as president of Central Carolina Community College, the state's largest community college. She joined Duke Power, North Carolina's largest utility, as vice president of communications. In 2002, she became president of the company.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 4, Apr 2003,
p32-38, il
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5796
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North Carolina's last surviving menhaden fishing-and-processing plant is Beaufort Fisheries, located in Beaufort in Carteret County. Latham discusses owner Jule Wheatly's efforts to keep the family-owned operation running and the viewpoints of others who feel a fish factory has no place in 2003 Beaufort, a tourist town of \"tony shops and historic homes.\"
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 4, Apr 2003,
p40-45, il
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5842
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Metrolina Greenhouses, Inc., located in Huntersville, is the nation's largest greenhouse housed under one roof. Four hundred workers work ninety-two heated acres, which produces over 70 million plants a year for retailers including Lowe's, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 6, June 2003,
p26-29, il
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5843
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently let their basketball coach, Matt Doherty, go. Murray discusses reasons for this and the future of the basketball program at the school.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 6, June 2003,
p30-33, 36, il, por
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5844
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David Griffin, Jr. is vice-president of the family business, D. H. Griffin Wrecking. The company is the Southeast's largest and the country's third-largest wrecking company. Gray discusses the work of Griffin and the company at the clean-up of the World Trade Center in New York.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 6, June 2003,
p38-49, il
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5845
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An ankle injury ended Walter Triplette's soccer career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, so he turned to fencing. Today he is the owner of Triplette Competitive Arms, Inc. The company, located near Elkin, makes and sell fencing weapons, masks, tunics, and armor. Between 100 to 200 orders are shipped daily from an inventory worth over $1 million.
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5894
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Republican Kevin Martin of Weddington is, at 36, the youngest member of the Federal Communications Commission. A 1989 graduate of the University of North Carolina, he earned a law degree from Harvard and held several high-profile positions, including working with White House prosecutor Kenneth Starr and serving as deputy general counsel of George W. Bush's presidential campaign, before being appointed to the FCC.
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5939
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North Carolina's top seventy-five public companies are ranked by their May 2003 market value. Bank of America (Charlotte) retained its number one spot from 2002.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 8, Aug 2003,
p30-38, il
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5940
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James B. Duke is a well-known name in the history of the North Carolina tobacco industry, but not many people know of his involvement with electricity. Durden recounts a less known but very risky venture in building what was, at that time, the world's largest hydrostation. The project was built in a remote Canadian region.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 8, Aug 2003,
p50-55, il, por
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5959
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Legislation passed by the federal government in 2000 opened the way for ownership of around 300 lighthouses to be transferred to non-profit groups or local governments. When the 128-year-old Corolla Lighthouse became available, a struggle for ownership broke out between Outer Banks Conservationists, Inc., headquartered in Dare County, and the county government in Currituck County, where the lighthouse stands.
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6056
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North Carolina's banks and credit unions are ranked by their 2002 revenues. Bank of America and Wachovia repeated their first and second rankings from 2002. The highest ranking credit union was the State Employees Credit Union, which ranked fifth.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 11, Nov 2003,
p44, 46, 48, 50, il
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6057
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Al Lyter is the founder and chief scientific officer of Raleigh-based Federal Forensic Associates, Inc. The company is a private ink-analysis business and is one of only four in the nation. Using high-tech equipment, Lyter analyzes inks to determine their molecular composition. Such work is useful in determining authenticity when wills of medical records are suspected of being altered. Clients include law firms, corporations, and police departments.
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6059
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North Carolina's oldest family business, and the nation's tenth, is a 261-year-old farm located in Martin County. In 1742, King George II granted the land to John Whitley's grandfather of eight-generations past. Whitley is still in possession of the grant and wax seal, found in the homeplace attic in the 1950s.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 11, Nov 2003,
p28-23, il
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