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• Position: AaiPharma Inc. emerged from bankruptcy protection - Bozco plans to build factory - Halifax Linen Service plans for expansion its linen supplies

Fayetteville tries to capture Fort Bragg

Fayetteville would become the state's fourth-largest city, passing Winston-Salem and Durham, under a plan that would allow it and neighboring Spring Lake to annex Fort Bragg. The municipalities would spend $7 million to run water lines to the base, which has an 87-year-old water-treatment plant that has repeatedly violated water-quality rules. The annexation would add about 30,000 residents to Fayetteville for a total population of more than 212,000 and nearly 5,000 to Spring Lake for a total of about 13,000. Cumberland County also approved the plan. After a dispute between Fayetteville and Spring Lake in 1975, a court ruled annexation of the base would require approval by both cities, the county and the federal government.

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WILMINGTON -- Contract drug researcher aaiPharma emerged from bankruptcy protection (cover story, October) and went private. Soon after, Rachel Selisker, 50, replaced Matthew Czajkowski, 56, as chief financial officer. Selisker had been managing director of the Research Triangle Park office of Thompson Clive & Partners, a London-based venture capitalist. From 1987 to 2000...