Word: raleighs
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...million and spent $8.8 million, while the Hunt organization had collected $5.2 million and spent $3.9 million. The campaign may end up costing $20 million, shattering the record for a U.S. Senate race ($13.6 million in the 1982 California contest in which Republican Pete Wilson beat Jerry Brown). The Raleigh News & Observer reported that about 75% of the Senator's campaign contributions have come from out of state. About 52% of Hunt's funds are from outside North Carolina, according to the Governor's campaign staffers...
...booters, freshman Trace Whitley also lived up to her advance billing Whitley who played for the national 19-and-under squad showed poise all afternoon. Although the impotent Springfield attack gave the Raleigh, N.C. native few opportunities to show her agility, Whitley took control of the game in the Harvard half of the field with her aggressive ball distribution...
...Lost Colony is a play about the English colony that was established on Roanoke Island 22 years before the Jamestown folk first sailed into Chesapeake Bay and 35 years before the Mayflower put in at Plymouth. In 1584 Walter Raleigh's agents landed here; the environs were named Virginia, after the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth, who chose the name. The next year Raleigh sent out the first colonizers, all men. Sir Richard Grenville was heavily involved; Sir Francis Drake paid a call. In 1587 a second group was dispatched, this one including women and children. They baptized an Indian named...
...Raleigh...
...best list: the Quincy Patriot Ledger (circ. 89,300) south of Boston, the Bergen County Record (circ. 149,200) in northern New Jersey, the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 132,900) in the San Fernando Valley. Some of these medium-size dailies, such as North Carolina's Raleigh News and Observer (circ. 129,600), Alaska's Anchorage Daily News (circ. 49,200) and Mississippi's Jackson Clarion-Ledger (circ. 69,900) have earned recent Pulitzers...