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- What kids can give: Use the holiday spirit to introduce…
- ASHEVILLE — On Thanksgiving Day, hundreds of people across Western North Carolina, including children, will generously give of their time to help feed the hungry and offer warmth to the homeless. Soon after comes January, when the holidays…
- Asheville Citizen-Times
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- News Analysis: U.S. economy on long transition to recovery
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- While some are sighing year-end relief of having already spotted signs of recovery in the United States, others are still as worried as in the midst of the recession. One could indeed argue that their…
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- Before you buy plants, make sure they have healthy root…
- A while back, I bought a flat of pansies and two six-packs of violas, both grown at the same North Carolina wholesale nursery and sold at a garden center in Rock Hill. I babied those plants for several weeks, till I finally had the time to…
- Rock Hill Herald
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- Increased traffic calls for more caution, not speed
- It's particularly good advice here in Western North Carolina, where road conditions may give some ... AAA estimates about 33 million Americans will travel by car 50 miles or more from their homes, up slightly from 32.5 million last year.
- Asheville Citizen-Times
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- Thankful, even for the disasters
- Retired educator Joan Carroll, 68, who recently moved to Washington County from North Carolina, remembers her first holiday ... But my new tradition for the last nine years is I go to one of my kids' homes," she said. Bob Wawrzeniak, 79, of…
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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- The spirit of this season: Be thankful, spend less
- NEW YORK — Sometime in the 1980s, when he was living on the street, the kid who later became the seminal rapper KRS-One stopped at the Bowery Mission for a sandwich. He doesn't recall what kind, only that it was served with respect. On…
- USA Today
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USA Today- Spouse's finances fair game under proposed ethics law
- ... proposed new form. "I think it's very manageable and attractive." He noted that states that got high grades from the Center for Public Integrity, including North Carolina and Louisiana, have long, complicated disclosure forms ...…
- Charleston Gazette
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- Border barriers lower rates
- For many years I ran an agency in Rhode Island that recruited families to adopt children from the state's child welfare system. Like many such organizations, we had a "waiting child" feature on a local television station. After a TV spot…
- Washington Times
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- Lawyer for Mich. money manager also in hot water
- DETROIT (AP) - A lawyer who is representing a Michigan money manager accused of fraud has his own legal problems. Gregory Bartko was indicted this month in Raleigh, N.C., on charges of fraud, conspiracy and making false statements.…
- Charleston Daily Mail
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- Hovnanian Enterprises Announces Appointment of New Chairman of…
- ... in Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The Company's homes are marketed…
- Biloxi Sun Herald
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