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• HOBAS Pipe USA.(Business: THE LATEST INDUSTRY NEWS)

  - 2008-05-01

  HOBAS Pipe USA has promoted Dan Davis to Division Manager-East. This newly created position covers the eastern USA from Maine to Florida where Davis will coordinate the activities of all the eastern area managers. Davis graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte...

  Tags: CAREER, Charlotte, Florida, Maine, SALES, U.S., University of North Carolina

• Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949-2000

  - 2008-01-01

  SEA CHANGE AT ANNAPOLIS: The United States Naval Academy, 1949-2000, H. Michael Gelfand, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2006, $34.95. The key to H. Michael Gelfand's book on the U.S. Naval Academy lies in the double-entendre in the book's title, not in its misleading subtitle. The work...

  Tags: U.S., University of North Carolina

• Coal may provide "green diesel" fuel

  - 2006-06-01

  As U.S. oil reserves dwindle, some say the nation will have to rely on synthetic petroleum fuel made from its large stores of coal. A two-step chemical process augments a method of making cleaner-burning alternative fuel from coal and other carbon sources by transforming some of its waste products into...

  Tags: carbon, petroleum, Transportation, U.S., University of North Carolina

• Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900.(Book review)

  - 2006-03-22

  Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900. By Eric T. L. Love. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 245. $19.95.) This work is a reinterpretation of how race influenced United States imperialism from 1865 to 1900. Previous studies...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, Philippines, U.S., University of North Carolina

• Amazing Concert Hosted by the NCCA and Local Chinese Organizations in North Carolina to be Headlined by World-Renowned Twelve Girls Band from China

  - 2005-10-13

  RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Performance Will Benefit Katrina-Rita Relief and Will Be Held on October 17 in Raleigh, NC at the University of North Carolina World-renowned Twelve Girls Band will stage a charity concert at the University of North Carolina's Memorial Hall on Monday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m....

  Tags: Benefits, China, HARDWARE, Raleigh, U.S., University of North Carolina

• The unpredictability of revolutions is a lesson that never makes much of an impression on leaders who think that they can manipulate history through force, maintains Charles Kurzman, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at

  - 2005-04-01

  The unpredictability of revolutions is a lesson that never makes much of an impression on leaders who think that they can manipulate history through force, maintains Charles Kurzman, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since the U.S. seems to be planning a long-term...

  Tags: leader, Leadership, professor, sociology, U.S., University of North Carolina

• The furniture industry, the future of the industry, United States versus China

  - 2003-10-17

  THE FURNITURE INDUSTRY CASE GOODS THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY, UNITED STATES VERSUS CHINA, says the U.S. furniture industry must prepare for a further onslaught of cheap Chinese goods. As more factories close in the Southeast, state governments will feel the financial impact. The, 20-page paper is from the University...

  Tags: China, FINANCE, Strategy, U.S., University of North Carolina