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Architect J. Hyatt Hammond of Greensboro received the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal, the highest award given to a state architect. The medal is in recognition of outstanding accomplishments or a distinguished career. Hammond, 73, has spent almost fifty years in the field of architecture.
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The Winston-Salem architectural firm of Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce received the 1999 AIA North Carolina Firm Award. The award is given to the firm producing quality architecture and having a high level of customer satisfaction for a ten-year period. The firm was founded in 1965.
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In 1881, French artist Paul Phillipoteaux painted the Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama. It is the world's largest oil painting, measuring 376 feet long and 22 feet high. Wake Forest University now owns the painting and stores it in Clemmons, North Carolina. State Senator Ham Horton of Winston-Salem feels the painting would be a great tourist attraction and got $50,000 from the 1999 General Assembly to do a feasibility study on assembling the painting in suitable surroundings as a tourist attraction.
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Video camera usage by governmental and law enforcement agencies proves effective. In 1998, Charlotte mounted cameras at twenty intersections to catch red light violators. In the first year, over 27,000 tickets were issued. When a police officer was shot two years ago, Charlotte equipped all 450 patrol cars with cameras. Now Charlotte is putting cameras on school buses to catch those who ignore a stopped bus.
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Banner Elk, with a population of 600 plus 600 Lees-McRae Colleges students, grew from a sleepy mountain village to a popular travel spot. The change began in 1984 with the opening of the Elk River Club. Wealthy members built spectacular homes. Demands for more services increased. Today Banner Elk is a mixture of town, gown, and tourists, along with new restaurants, and a variety of accommodations and shops.
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Raleigh's Exploris Museum is the world's first global experience center. Instead of the traditional museum approach of collecting material then connecting it with visitors who just come and look, Exploris determined what experiences it wanted visitors to have, then collected materials to support them. Exploris encourages visitors to manipulate and interact with the exhibits through touch, sight, and sound.
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Raleigh architect Frank Harmon, founder of Frank Harmon, Architect, received three Honor Awards in Design in 1999. The Honor Award is AIA North Carolina's highest award for design excellence. In the forty-four year history of the Design Award, this is the first time that an architect has won three in the same year.
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Each year Americans spend over $27 million of their own money on nontraditional medical treatments, including acupuncture, homeopathy, and chiropractic therapies. This trend has not been lost on health insurers. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina was the first insurer in the state to develop a plan called Alt Med Blue. Several other state HMOs have since added an alt med component to their programs.
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The state's labor market is in a period of transition, moving from the traditional, lower-skilled jobs in manufacturing to skilled-labor jobs created by the new computer technology. While manufacturing jobs decline-82,000 in textiles alone between 1977 and 1997-thousands of new technology jobs are being created and need workers. On the state's \"Fastest Growing Jobs\" list, computer scientist ranks No. 1, computer engineer No. 3, and systems analyst No. 4.
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Over strong protests from businesses, the 1999 North Carolina General Assembly enacted major changes in laws affecting the state's HMOs. The changes include requiring health plans to cover the cost of birth control pills and pregnancy-prevention devices; to provide patient access to and payment for non-formulary drugs; and to pay for bone mass measurement tests for early detection of osteoporosis.
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In North Carolina the retail auto industry is a $15 billion enterprise. The industry generates 20 percent of the state's retail sales tax and ranks ninth nationally in the number of car dealerships. Eighteen more workers are employed per dealer than the national average. While dealerships declined from 50,000 to 20,000 nationally between 1949 and 1999, they remain a continuing, successful small business in the Southeast.
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12.Selling Cars Is Often a Family Affair by Towle, Lisa H. North Carolina Vol. 57 Issue 11, Nov 1999
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Car dealerships across the state become family affairs, passing from generation to generation. Morgan Dodge Jeep in Durham includes three Morgan generations, beginning in 1940. Norwood Bryan's father started a Fayetteville dealership in 1945 and the younger Bryan later joined. In 1999, Norwood Bryan received a prestigious Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award, one of only eight awards given in the nation, which has almost 22,000 dealerships.
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In the past decade the Hispanic population increased 128 percent and the Asian 83 percent in Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba Counties. Hispanic and Asians are drawn by a large demand for manufacturing, service, and construction jobs. Employers help these workers adjust to new surroundings by hiring bilingual individuals to work with them, providing work-site classes in the English language, and having company supervisors learn the foreign language of the workers.
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In December 1989, Phil Kirk became president and secretary of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI) as well as publisher of NORTH CAROLINA magazine. Kirk discusses some of his successes over the past decade as well as his plans for the organization.
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Education is a top priority in the state's business community. School activities in which companies and their employees are involved include mentoring, tutoring, and donating equipment. Educational contributions by companies including Neuvile, IBM, North Carolina Auto Dealers Association, Weyerhaeuser, and Nortel are profiled.
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