Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought by eight women who complained that they were repeatedly passed over for raises and higher-level management positions. The EEOC joined their legal battle and expanded it to a class-action suit to include former and current female employees of Publix, which has stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama...
With a population of 130 companies and 92,000 employees clustered in and around it, North Carolina's Research Triangle Park is the region's showcase for jobs and technology. Nearby are the resources of Raleigh and Durham and three universities. (Some 660 classroom trailers handle the student overflow at local public schools in a testament to the hectic growth of the area.) The East Coast headquarters of Cisco Systems, planning to boost its work force from 550 employees to 2,000 in the near future, is hiring at an even faster clip than company plants in Silicon Valley...
That availability has also helped lure biotechnology firms. Covance Biotechnology Services, a pharmaceutical company, recently put up a $57 million bioprocessing facility that will house 130 employees by the end of the year. According to the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the state's biotech payrolls will grow from 15,000 workers to 100,000 during the next 20 years...
...intellectual stamina." Even now, Gates has an arrangement with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive. Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach. "We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology," Gates says. Winblad puts it more grandly. "We share our thoughts about the world and ourselves," she says. "And we marvel about how, as two young overachievers, we began a great...
...Packers, 30-13 winners over Carolina in the NFC title game and 13-point favorites for the Super Bowl, can't be too intimidated about that prospect, because the Patriots were nearly as inconsistent on offense as the Jaguars. But New England's defense, which has allowed one touchdown in the last four games, was superb...