Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of next year's elections are expected to be genuine contests rather than easy calls. Thus small groups of motivated activists can have impact. Henry McMaster, the Republican chairman in South Carolina, observes that "Perot sounds more Republican every day." McMaster thinks Perot's minions could give the G.O.P. a shot at controlling the state's congressional delegation. In Florida operatives on both sides are compiling lists of Perot supporters to court...
Keller said such housing allowances vary according to factors such as where the professor is moving from. Gates came from Duke University in Durham North Carolina, where housing is inexpensive relative to prices in the Boston area...
...even as cases mounted, many were being exposed as hoaxes. By week's end more than a dozen people had been arrested for making false reports. Among & them were a Colorado woman and South Carolina man who were captured on video by store security cameras putting objects in cans; others were admitting they lied. The Pepsi scare fizzled as fast as an open can of cola on a hot picnic table...
...including such well-known ones as Miramar Naval Air Station and Presidio of Monterey in California and McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. None of the targeted bases, though, has defenders more fervid than the partisans of three East Coast naval shipyards: at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Charleston, South Carolina; and Norfolk, Virginia. All three can claim long, distinguished service to the U.S. Navy, are particularly proud of being "Navy towns" and typify the head-to-head competition for survival taking place across the country...
...their part, the Charleston defenders were not letting Mitchell's invidious remarks go unparried. In fact, the venerable South Carolina city had cranked up a campaign long before, because its shipyard was on the originally proposed Pentagon closure list, while Portsmouth and Norfolk were added by the commission for consideration only last month. That explains the placards the Portsmouth workers were waving at the panel hearing in Boston in early June: THE NAVY KNOWS BEST. In other words, close Charleston...