Word: carolina
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This is "retail politics," a genre of campaigning usually reserved for early battleground primary states like New Hampshire and South Carolina...
Four days later--the day after Memorial Day--their North Carolina unit's Marines gathered in their chapel at New River air station. "Semper Fidelis," they intoned solemnly before 700 mourners. "We will never forget you." But despite the service's long and treasured tradition of mutual trust and fierce loyalty, forgetting their men is precisely what the Marines seem to have done in this case...
When Bill Clinton shows up at a disaster area, it usually means the disaster?s over. But North Carolina, which would hardly agree with the bird?s-eye verdict that Hurricane Floyd was less fierce than anticipated, still has an aftershock or two left to go. As the President got ready to tour the ravaged state Monday, local officials were bracing for four more inches rain from Tropical Storm Harvey, which was set to sweep through western Florida Monday night. Flash flood warnings are being issued ? and flooding is one thing North Carolina is becoming awfully familiar with these days...
...Smell that? Waste lagoons at several of North Carolina?s huge corporate pig farms have overflowed, and at least one has ruptured, spilling 2 million gallons of sewage into a tributary of the Northeast Cape Fear River. The entire water supplies of Pitt and Edgecombe counties have been contaminated, and four more inches from Harvey isn?t likely to help. New Jersey is facing similar problems ? 1 million residents were told to boil their water this weekend after flooding overwhelmed a treatment plant ? but the problems of an agricultural state are special. At least 110,000 hogs and a million...
...year after falling to powerhouse North Carolina in the quarterfinals, The Crimson (12-5-1, 6-1 Ivy) dropped out of the NCAA tournament in the second round with a 3-0 loss at Hartford...