Word: raleigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always is a hand extended by Duke so welcome in Durham. Earlier this year, when Duke announced plans to acquire Durham Regional Hospital and nearby Raleigh Community Hospital, many in the area were suspicious of its motives. They feared, not without cause, that Duke was trying to take complete control of health care in the region by buying up all the competition. A major worry was that Duke would then jack up prices, as any monopoly would...
...normal year, politicians would scramble to be seen with a President whose job-approval ratings have remained over 60%. But in Raleigh, N.C., Democratic freshman Bob Etheridge proudly boasts that Tipper Gore will be appearing at a fund raiser for him this week and grows evasive when asked whether he'd like a similar favor from the Commander in Chief. "I ran my own campaign last time, and we plan to do the same thing this time," he says. His reluctance is understandable, given the fact that Etheridge recently became the first Democrat to be the target of a television...
Just ask Robert McGuire, a Mercedes salesman in Raleigh, N.C., who was ruefully watching as the market plunged last Tuesday. "Our customers are very investment driven," McGuire says. Just last month a retired engineer plunked down $50,000 in cash for a mid-size Mercedes as a present for his wife--a purchase paid for with money made in the stock market the previous week...
...before Faircloth's press conference, Edwards was peddling his own health-care elixir at a panel discussion in Raleigh. He condemned "health-care bureaucrats" who overrule doctors in determining a patient's treatment, and asked, "Are we gonna put the law on the side of the patient or...leave it on the side of the big insurance companies?" In the familiar terms of Southern populism, Edwards promised to be an "independent voice" in the Senate for those who "don't have Lear jets to fly them to Washington, don't have lobbyists walking the halls of Congress...
...North Carolina politics. As usual, and for good reason, the Edwards-Faircloth contest is being cast as a battle between rural conservatives and a new North Carolina, the one centered on Charlotte, the state's thriving financial center, and booming Research Triangle Park, a high-tech enclave that encompasses Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill...