Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NCNB, which acquired First RepublicBank of Texas in 1988, has long coveted C&S/Sovran. The proposed merger came only three days after Winston-Salem's Wachovia Corp. agreed to buy troubled South Carolina National for $800 million. The deals probably foreshadow a new wave of acquisitions, even among such big banks as Chemical, Chase Manhattan, Wells Fargo and Security Pacific. Says analyst James McDermott: "The industry is poised for a massive round of consolidations...
...Supreme Court who knew how it felt to be called a nigger. In the 1940s and '50s when he roamed the courtrooms of the South as chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Marshall suffered all the indignities of segregation. He once told a judge in North Carolina he had eaten the same meal in the same restaurant where the judge had dined the night before -- with one difference. "You had yours in the dining room," said Marshall. "I had mine in the kitchen...
...refrigerator-size computers that have less power than the average desktop machine. And they depend on radar equipment that runs on World War II-type vacuum tubes. This creaking system is dangerously prone to breakdowns. In one notorious instance in the winter of 1988, the radar sentinel in North Carolina was out of service for 10 days, during which a batch of tornadoes tore up the state, injuring 157 people, killing four and wreaking $77 million worth of damage...
...unless you know what you're going to do there, and don't throw the ball crosscourt. Jordan invariably found the open man because he has a map of the court and all its players inside his head (he majored in geography at North Carolina). He knows that a pass to someone less strong can make the team stronger...
...moments of which athletic dreams are made. Like the time when Don Rogers's overtime goal lifted the Crimson over undefeated Yale before more than 3000 people in New Haven, guaranteeing a share of the Ivy title. Or the opportunity to fly down Tobacco Road to take on North Carolina in the national tourney...