Vol. 24 No. 12, December 2004
Index
- Next stop, bartlett's.
- Employment.
- Retail sales (1).
- Trend.
- EPA air line doesn't fly, scholar contends.
- Eastern.
- Triangle.
- Triad.
- Charlotte.
- Western.
- NASCAR's flight might save lives.
- Quotas' death leads to no dearth of leaf.
- A profit crying: blue cross and blue shield of North Carolina.
- Aye do: some Cramerton town commissioners were concerned about possible conflicts of interest when Mayor Cathy Biles married Town Manager David Young.
- Dammed if they do: the $120 million Randleman Reservoir, which is supposed to supply water to the Triad for the next 50 years.
- Data bits.
- Duh Deux.
- Duh.
- Number of people worldwide with financial assets (excluding residential real estate) of more than $1 million: 7.7 million.
- Percentage by which the number of computer-science and computer-engineering majors in Canada and the United States dropped in 2003.
- Percentage of privately held companies that have been sued by a current or former employee.
- Percentage of regular business travelers who say they reply to their e-mail within one hour when working at the office.
- Percentage of top executives who say that not contributing to their company's political action committee could harm their career.
- The color purple.
- Unhappy camper: Satellite mapping showed that the home of John Meadows, a Democrat who ran for county commissioner in Iredell.
- Towing companies want off the hook.
- N.C. mutual CEO puts a premium on profit.
- He puts the squeeze on getting plastered.
- Druggist didn't come home from hospital.
- Tar heel stock watch.
- Talk radio proves right makes might.
- Hockey lockout mires businesses in deep snit.
- His job is on the line: Dustin Wilks makes a living doing what some consider loafing in one of America's fastest growing pro sports.
- Selling the sizzle: our 2004 small business of the year has been making hot stuff a family affair for three-quarters of a century.
- Where no bus stops: at age 88, the world's largest builder of school buses keeps learning lessons.
- New angle: the triangle region plans to stay on top.
- Bricks & mortar.