Word: carolina
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Historically, the mountains of North Carolina have shown a fiercely independent political streak and, as a longtime leader in agriculture conservation and education, I mirror that mind...
BORN: Jan. 23, 1941, Brevard EDUCATION: Wake Forest U, B.A., 1963, J.D., 1966 FAMILY: Wife, Elizabeth; three children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Tree farmer; banker POLITICAL CAREER: North Carolina House, 1967-73, minority leader, 1969-71; North Carolina Senate, 1973-75, minority leader, 1973-75; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1988; U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: 8 South Market Street, P.O. Box 2355, Asheville...
BORN: July 21, 1934, Chadbourn, N.C. EDUCATION: North Carolina A&T State U, B.S., 1956; Adelphi U, M.S.W., 1973 FAMILY: Wife, Gwendolyn; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Army, 1956-58 OCCUPATION: Professor; hospital administrator POLITICAL CAREER: Brooklyn deputy borough president, 1976-82; U.S. House, 1982- ADDRESS: 360 Clinton Avenue, Suite 6R, Brooklyn...
Towns, the son of a North Carolina sharecropper, made a name for himself in Brooklyn politics before moving to Capitol Hill 14 years ago. The former hospital administrator has worked for stricter FDA regulations and more liberal health-care benefits, and pushed a bill--passed in September--to require health plans to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay after childbirth...
...SOUTH CAROLINA...