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North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company of Durham is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. The company has been ranked in the top ten African-American businesses nationally and has over $10 billion in insurance in force.
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The state's growing biotechnology industry currently generates over $1 billion. To meet the increasing demand for trained workers, six community colleges - Alamance, Guilford, Lee, Martin, New Hanover, and Wake - are offering programs, in partnership with the N.C. Biotechnology Center and industry executives, to meet the need.
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While the community college's emphasis continues to be workforce development and technical training, many new services, including literacy training and small-business programs, are making demands on funding and space. Currently community colleges receive 4.8 cents of every tax dollar.
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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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LEARN, or Learners' and Educators' Assistance and Resource Network, a program of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is an innovative web site for teachers. It provides teachers convenient times for quality professional development and exemplary lesson plans that are linked to the N.C. Standard Course of Study.
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The American Institute of Architects' North Carolina Gold Medal was created in 1998 to recognize an outstanding career as an architect. Winston-Salem architect Lloyd Walter is the first recipient of the award.
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The North Carolina mountains cover an area of 6,000 square miles and contain the highest peaks east of the Mississippi River. They are also the site of spectacular autumn leaf displays. Each year tourists flock to such areas as Flat Rock and Cumberland Knob to view them.
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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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The Firm Award, established in 1998 by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, recognizes state firms creating outstanding architecture over a ten-year period. O'Brien/Atkins Associates, P.A., based in the Research Triangle Park, is the inaugural award winner.
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From 1894 to 1996, the Raleigh News and Observer was locally owned and run by the Daniels family. In 1997, Fred Crisp, who has worked for the paper since 1969, became the first non-Daniels to head the publication.
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3937
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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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While tourism pumps $195 million into Carteret County's economy, it isn't the only revenue source. Two new industrial parks, one focusing on marine industries, will open in 1999. In addition, research facilities and employers like Atlantic Veneer and Carteret General Hospital also fuel a growing economy.
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The Port of Morehead City and the Port of Wilmington provide $300 million in tax revenues and over 80,000 jobs statewide. Located just four miles from the ocean, Morehead has, at forty-five feet, one of the deepest turning basins and channels on the East Coast.
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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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