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President Reagan has drastically slashed entitlement programs, which has caused significant reductions in North Carolina's Medicaid program. State legislators are now faced with finding new ways to fund health care and with bringing spiraling health care costs under control.
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368
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The Department of Public Instruction found a high number of North Carolina instructors teaching subjects in which they had no previous training.
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369
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County agencies in North Carolina are experiencing the effects of President Reagan's decision to cut federal funding for social service and education programs that are administered at the county level.
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370
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Federal budget cuts have a definite impact on North Carolina and its government programs.
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371
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North Carolina's gubernatorial succession amendment, which allows the governor and lieutenant governor to serve up to eight years, has had a ripple effect on the General Assembly. Structural improvements in the legislature followed the amendment, and an era of more centralized legislative leadership, more career-oriented legislators, and a more professional atmosphere has been introduced.
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372
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The federal government cut funding for many programs, which ultimately left the state government responsible for creating the funds.
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7.How Powerful is the North Carolina Governor? by Beyle, Thad L. NC Insight Vol. 4 Issue 4, Dec 1981
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373
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The powers and duties of the Governor have expanded in some areas and contracted in others over the years.
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374
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Wake County city and county planners address planning logistics for an expected boom in industry at Research Triangle Park.
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375
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Advancing the microelectronics industry in North Carolina would be economically beneficial for the state.
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376
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The microelectronics industry's chemically treating large quantities of silicon crystals could possibly be detrimental to the North Carolina environment, but could expand the state's economic base.
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377
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The North Carolina General Assembly contemplates passing the North Carolina Severance Tax Act, which would tax two commodities: peat and phosphate.
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378
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Kelly discusses the beginning of the microelectronics industry in North Carolina and describes Governor Hunt's views on the topic.
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379
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Fiscal caution and weak leadership at the local level have left pregnant NC teens in an educational lurch. These teens' low-priority status seems to contradict Article I of the State Constitution that preserves \"the right to the privilege of education.\"
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380
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North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, James A. Graham, offers his views on the tobacco industry in North Carolina.
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381
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Scientists are able to remove protein from the tobacco leaf in a process known as homogenized leaf curing.
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