Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traces of metals such as aluminum and zinc. In May, U.S. forest experts will travel to West Germany to compare notes with European scientists; in turn, German researchers will visit the U.S. in June. Says Fred White, staff forester with the North Carolina division of forest resources in Raleigh: "Initial answers for this phenomenon will probably be a combination of total nonsense, the truth and lots in between." -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington, with other bureaus
Lewis Holding, chairman of First Citizens Bank in Raleigh, N.C., sums up the fighting mood now prevalent among local bankers by saying, "For a hundred years we've been trying to build our own capital base in the South. We're not going to let some Yankee money-center banks come in and swoop it all up." Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island last spring created the first U.S. regional banking zone. This allows institutions in one of the states to acquire banks or savings and loans in the other two. The Bank of Boston ($20 billion) promptly took...
...sold everything we had in the store from size four on up," says Phyllis P. Dixon of Bob's Army Surplus in Raleigh, N.C. "Usually the hunters buy it, but this is the first time we've had bare walls because of the younger kids." Sales increased tenfold over the previous year during the holiday season at Dug-Out, a Chicago store specializing in military garb. Burk Manufacturing Co. of Shreveport, La., one of the nation's largest commercial manufacturers of military-style clothing, has increased its production of camouflage wear by 70% since last August...
Some parents find it less cool that their children are obsessed with war-related clothing. But most consider the fad relatively harmless. For youngsters, moreover, the protective coloring can have its uses. Phyllis Dixon, of Bob's Army Surplus in Raleigh, recalls one mother who came home to find her entire neighborhood dressed in camouflage. Says Dixon: "She couldn't find her own kid because they all looked alike." -By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Carol Fletcher/Chicago and Stanley W. Robblns/Atlanta
...important to keep partisan friction from stymying the city council at the beginning." said A very Upchurch, who will be sworn in as Raleigh, N.C.'s chief executive in a few weeks...