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• Fitch Rates Athens-Clarke County, Georgia's $221.5MM Water & Sewer Revs 'AA'

  - 2008-09-03

  NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA' rating to Athens-Clarke County, GA's ACC approximately $221.5 million water and sewerage revenue bonds, series 2008. The bonds are scheduled to price Sept. 18, 2008 through negotiated sale. A portion of the bond proceeds, approximately $24 million, will be used to...

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• Weapon of math deduction

  - 2007-09-01

  IT'S NOT THE SIZE OF THE ARMY; it's how you use it. That's the conclusion of a recent study by Patricia Sullivan, a professor at the University of Georgia, who has devised a simple yet effective statistical formula that correctly predicts the outcome of 78% of the conflicts plugged into...

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• The vibe of a college town

  - 2007-05-14

  Athens town population: 103,238 Athens gown population: 33,660 Housing: For $300,000, you can buy a four-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath brick house on a half-acre. Taxes: Income tax ranges from 1 percent to 6 percent, and Social Security income is exempt. People 62 and older can...

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• Lost farms

  - 2007-01-01

  The Last Harvest, Truck Farmers in the Deep South (University of Georgia Press, $32.50) is a poignant collection of pictures capturing small-scale farmers in author Perry Dilbeck's hometown of McDonough, Georgia. Once a small town of roadside vegetable stands, McDonough is now another sprawling suburb of Atlanta. Dillbeck tells the...

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• University of Georgia Grady College Professor Warns of Increased Governmental Pressures on Broadcasters and College Press.(Kent Middleton)

  - 2005-03-08

  Byline: University of Georgia Athens, Ga., March 8 AScribe Newswire -- The Federal Communications Commission FCC is inhibiting broadcasters and university administrators are threatening student press freedoms, according to a University of Georgia journalism professor. Broadcasters have become skittish since the...

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• Athens Banner-Herald, Ga., Don Nelson column.

  - 2004-11-21

  By Don Nelson, Athens Banner-Herald, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 21--GET GEORGIA'S GREAT MINDS TOGETHER: The name of the brilliant 20th century physicist and father of relativity, Albert Einstein, was invoked this past week during a promotional presentation about the...

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• Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia present the Delta Prize for Global Understanding to former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata.

  - 2002-05-28

  M2 PRESSWIRE-28 May 2002-DELTA AIR LINES: Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia present the Delta Prize for Global Understanding to former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05282002 ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines...

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• Leary, William M., ed. MacArthur and the American Century: A Reader.(Brief Article)

  - 2002-01-01

  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 538 pp., $40.00, ISBN 0-8032-2930-5 Publication Date: February 2001 America's most controversial general returns once again. Allowing that the controversy will remain, William M. Leary University of Georgia, whose previous works include We Shall Return! MacArthur's Commanders and...

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• Irrigation research park comes to Georgia

  - 2001-10-01

  The University of Georgia college of agricultural and environmental sciences is building an irrigation research and education facility near Camilla, Ga. The park is in Mitchell County, in the heart of the Flint River Basin and Dougherty Plain, which houses about half the state's 1.5 million irrigated acres. The...

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• U.S. Lawyers Ask Judges to Overturn Decision on UGA Admissions - use of race in University of Georgia admissions - Brief Article

  - 2000-11-23

  In a strongly worded appeal, lawyers for the federal government have urged an appeals court to overturn a decision against the University of Georgia's use of race in its admissions. Officials at the U.S. Department of Justice say U.S. District Judge B. Avant Edenfield was wrong to conclude that...

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