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12480
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We the People of North Carolina magazine staff interviews Thomas W. Graves, Jr., the incoming president of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry, on a variety of topics, including what his background brings to the position and what he hopes to accomplish.
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12481
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For years many visitors to Fayetteville left town with a bad impression of the place. Jones describes the city's upbeat, mainstream changes accomplished recently and the ongoing campaigns to improve the quality of life in southeastern North Carolina's largest city. Changes include a new central library, downtown redevelopment, and new shopping centers.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 44 Issue 6, June 1986,
p26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36-37, il
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12482
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Parker one of North Carolina's most prominent newspapermen, is editor of The Fayetteville Times. He describes the city from a newspaper editor's viewpoint/
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12483
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Manpower Temporary Services is the state's largest provider of temporary employees. The company began in 1961 in a three-room house. Today 40 full-time employees man eight offices across eastern North Carolina. Manpower places over 16,000 temporaries each year.
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12484
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Ken Younger is president and chief executive officer of Carolina Freight Corporation. Headquartered in Cherryville in Gaston County, the company is one of the nation's ten largest freight handlers. We the People of North Carolina magazine features Younger in its Businessman In the News section.
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12485
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William C. Steele is the new president and CEO of Carolina Coach Company, the country's third-largest interstate bus carrier. Though the company has declined in the past decade, Steele is seeking to restore it through improving service and image, cutting costs and route duplication, and looking for way to use the company's 225 buses profitably.
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12486
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Peters served as North Carolina'â„¢s Commissioner of Motor Vehicles from 1977 to 1981. Since January 1982 he has been executive vice president of the Raleigh-based North Carolina Trucking Association. He discusses how deregulation has affected the trucking industry and the industry's economic impact within the state.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 44 Issue 7, July 1986,
p28, 30, 32, 51-52, por
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12487
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Plentl has been director of the North Carolina Department of Transportation's Division of Aviation since October 1973. He is interviewed on a variety of topics including recent developments affecting the state's air transportation system and the important role that system has in North Carolina's economic development efforts.
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12488
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American Airlines is building a hub terminal in Raleigh scheduled to open in mid-1987. The airline and its commuter partner, American Eagle, will fly eighty-five flights a day to thirty-five cities. The initial phase will create 475 new jobs and about 1,300 ultimately when the terminal is in full operation. The airline is committing about $114 million to the project.
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12489
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Seven years ago Piedmont Airlines was a medium-sized regional carrier in the Southeast. Today, it is one of the country's major airlines with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion. Since the airlines deregulated in 1978, Piedmont's jet fleet has tripled in size, with a comparable expansion in employees and passengers. The company recently placed an order with Boeing for twenty-five of its 737-400 twinjets, with an option for thirty more, total cost $1.9 billion.
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12490
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Gibson surveys commercial real estate activity across North Carolina.
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12491
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Rhodes, a former New Hanover County Republican state representative, is Governor James Martin's Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1973 to 1983.
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12492
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The Sanderling Inn, located at Duck on the Outer Banks, opened for its first full summer season in 1986. The resort is built around the historic renovated Caffey's Inlet United States Life-saving Station, which was constructed in 1899.
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12496
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The 1985 North Carolina General Assembly authorized the new Basic Education Program, which is now in the second year of an eight-year implementation schedule. The program seeks to improve public school education. This article provides a brief outline of its components, its origins, its timetable, and its likely effects on students now and in the future.
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12497
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Dr. Howard Maniloff joined the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in 1983 as special assistant for policy development. Dr. Craig Phillips, state school superintendent, asked him to coordinate the development of the new Basic Education Program. Dr. Maniloff discusses the program in this We the People of North Carolina magazine interview.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 44 Issue 9, Sept 1986,
p20, 22, 24, 47-48, por
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