Word: carolina
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AFTER BARELY TWO YEARS OF EXIStence, NetEdge Systems is ready to cash in big. The fast-growing North Carolina company, which makes devices called edge routers that connect computers to high-speed voice and data networks over telephone lines, plans to launch an initial public offering (ipo) of its stock to raise some $40 million in the second half of this year. NetEdge already has more than 100 employees and revenues of about $25 million and expects to show a profit by the end of 1996. The public offering will finance the firm's expansion; it will also boost...
...SOUTH CAROLINA: Born during the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt, trapped behind German lines on D day, and the only person ever to win a write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate, Strom Thurmond appears tanned and ready to run for an unprecedented eighth term. "He is a fascinating man, and too easily discounted," reports TIME's Lisa H. Towle from Raleigh, North Carolina. "I don't think there is a South Carolinian alive today who has not received a letter from him. When you graduate from high school, he sends you a letter. Everybody." It is Thurmond's service...
...broken watch. Aides joke that they've thought the Senator would make one of them share a room with him if the local Super 8 gave him a room with double beds. "There are really two wars going on out here," he says in a plane over South Carolina, eating his turkey sandwich. "An air war, television, and a ground war, campaign organization." He has focused on the latter because he had no hope of winning the former. "You never know until the end whether you were right...
...there is one Forbes idea most of his supporters can name: the flat tax, which 27% of those surveyed gave as their No. 1 reason for preferring him. Says Cindy Connelly, 33, a part-time bank teller in Cope, South Carolina: "Other than the flat tax, I really don't know a whole lot about him, but what I have heard I like. The income tax is made with loopholes for the rich...
These are curious charges in view of the fact that neither of the two readers paid by the University of North Carolina Press to evaluate my manuscript for publication found such egregious classes of error as did Koyanis. Both readers strongly urged publication, made detailed suggestions for expanding the introduction and pointed out some typos and mistranscriptions in the working draft that hey scrutinized...