Word: carolinas
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...President of Patrick Yarns is a bit of an odd duck these days. While most domestic manufacturers are consumed by cutbacks and layoffs, Gilbert Patrick is looking to add to his North Carolina workforce. "We have been very fortunate to never lay off a single associate due to the economy in 45 years," says Patrick. Just what economy is he working...
...Colleges around the country are fielding more appeals for additional aid than usual. At North Carolina's Davidson College, the number of appeals had jumped sixfold by March - before the school had even sent students award letters detailing their financial-aid packages - compared with the same period last year. At Iowa's Grinnell College, appeals for more funds have jumped as much as 50% compared to last spring, and the aid office at the University of Texas at Austin estimates that half the phone calls it receives these days are requests for an aid bump. Earlier this month, the Department...
...that the school provided "an uncommon education for the common man." But many are starting to wonder if that mission is still possible. And Michigan is not the only public university in crisis. As states across the country face budget shortfalls, leading schools like the universities of Wisconsin, North Carolina and Virginia increasingly depend on support from outside their home states, either in the form of philanthropy or in top tuition rates paid by a growing number of wealthy out-of-state students. The result has already been a quasi-privatization of some of the nation's top research institutions...
...Haiti. It would not use the word, which Clinton noted historically describes an act of war. But on Friday the President dispatched six warships to stop and search vessels headed for Haiti. He also ordered a reinforced rifle company of perhaps 600 Marines to proceed from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and there to go on alert, ready to fly to Haiti to help evacuate the thousands of U.S. citizens there, should that become necessary. It might not be necessary, though. At week's end, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, head...
...analysts, the media and even current and future customers come in contact with the brand. By late afternoon April 17, the Wikipedia entry for Domino's noted the following about the controversy: "In April 2009, videos depicting two Domino's employees, Kristy Hammonds and Michael Setzer, in Conover, North Carolina, tampering with customer food were uploaded to the YouTube video hosting service. Later, the duo was arrested and charged...