Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hammering home with new fire and focus his message that voters should not entrust their government to a small-state Democratic Governor whose public policies and statements, Bush charged repeatedly, amounted to "a pattern of deception." But the President was saying these things in places like North and South Carolina, New Jersey, Florida -- states that have been secure Republican bastions during recent national elections. Campaigning so late in the race on formerly safe turf suggested, despite all the attendant euphoria, a certain desperation among the Bush forces...
Very little of that bonanza has filtered down to chicken-plant workers. The industry's average pay is $7 an hour, vs. $10 for the food-processing industry as a whole. In Arkansas the typical wage is a bit lower than in such states as Virginia, Maryland and South Carolina. Production per worker in the poultry industry nearly tripled from 1960 to 1987, yet pay rose only half as fast as chicken prices did during that time, according to a 1989 report by the Institute for Southern Studies. Most chicken laborers are unskilled and barely educated; their only alternative...
...exposure groups, the calculation for leukemia risk was based on as few as seven cases. In addition, the Swedes found no increase in malignancies of the brain. "Up to this point the evidence had been stronger for brain tumors," says David Savitz, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina...
...trustees considered the offer and turned him down. So Duke turned to Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina. (They sealed the deal in 1924.) Duke, who lived near Princeton, never forgot the rejection, Rudenstine says. A statue of him at the Princeton, New Jersey cemetery faces away from the school...
OPTIMISTIC OR PESSIMISTIC, even some of the best-informed men and women simply cannot bring their imagination to accept certain possibilities. In 1901, two years before they took off from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur Wright told his brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years. Not long before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Admiral William Leahy advised President Harry Truman, "That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done . . . the bomb will never...