Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telephone and cable-TV companies join forces to wire up America, cellular firms are racing to create networks in the air. Last week Nextel Communications, a New Jersey wireless company, gained just such a coast-to-coast system when it acquired the cellular operations of Dial Page of South Carolina plus the mobile-radio business of Motorola in deals valued at $2.7 billion. The combinations will pit Nextel, a firm with 200,000 customers, against AT&T, which agreed to pay $12.6 billion for McCaw Cellular last year. Also in the fray are Nynex and Bell Atlantic, which agreed...
That is unlikely to happen without a terrible fight. The chief reason: N.A.A.C.P. chairman of the board William Gibson, a South Carolina dentist who handpicked Chavis for the job. Gibson, according to an N.A.A.C.P. insider, "has stacked every important committee with his own supporters." In the past, his tightly controlled faction has fended off requests from other board members about the organization's finances, programs and directors. Critics have been branded as "traitors and Uncle Toms" by Gibson and Chavis. "I'd be very surprised if there were an emergency board meeting called over this issue," says an N.A.A.C.P. source...
...Michael Jordan's father fake his own death? That's exactly what happened, according to the lawyer for one of two youths charged with murdering James Jordan. He reportedly died last July while he slept in a car parked alongside a North Carolina highway. Court papers the defense filed today in Robeson County, North Carolina, assert that Jordan staged the death to avoid huge gambling and business debts, as well as a threatened paternity suit in Illinois.Sources close to the case tell TIME reporter Lisa Towle that the defense has evidence that no blood was found in the car. Furthermore...
Does equality of the sexes in the military world extend to the barbershop? Just a week after trailblazing Shannon Faulkner won court-enforced admission to South Carolina's all-male Citadel, the same judge ruled that the prestigious military college's first woman cadet will have to get her head shaved like the boys. U.S. District Judge Weston Houck accepted the school's plan for Faulkner's admittance, which includes the dreaded trim. Faulkner's lawyer called the requirement "punitive and degrading...
...Senate followed North Carolina conservative Sen. Jesse Helms's lead with a 63-36 vote to cut off federal funds to any school district that teaches acceptance of homosexuality as a lifestyle. The proposal, by Helms and another Republican, New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith, popped up in the middle of debate over renewing the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act, which provides $12.5 billion to the nation's public schools. The measure, which needs a House vote to become reality, would cut federal aid to districts that "carry out a program or activity that has either the purpose or effect...