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ASHEVILLE — There's never been anything in Asheville quite like the new Carolina Country Theater — a multimillion-dollar, family-friendly music hall with live variety music and comedy performances.
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After the meetings, the federation will conduct a grower ballot to see if the state's barley export monopoly, or single desk as it's known locally, should continue in its present form, be modified or deregulated, a spokesman for ABB Grain said in an interview late last week.
"The single desk is at risk," Michael Iwaniw, ABB Grain's managing director, said in a letter to growers.
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ASHEVILLE — When it comes to gas prices, Joe Skinner prefers the numbers he sees in Greenville, S.C.
The 52-year-old from Fletcher drives a box delivery truck all over Western North Carolina on a daily basis, selling and delivering supplies to construction sites. He knows all the hot spots — the places that always sell for less.
While gas prices dipped below $2 in a few places acros...
When it was purchased in 2003 for a mere $43.5 million, Segal had indicated his company would be holding on to the income-producing office building for the long haul. That was when it was only about 72 percent leased. Today, the financial center is 98.5 percent leased; Fairway is 97 percent leased.
"It was not an easy decision for them to make," said , chair of , who represented b...
Taking the bus to work Downtown wasn't a huge hassle for Madeline Nowak -- she saved money on gas and parking while reducing traffic congestion and air pollution -- but it created a problem when she wanted to run errands during her lunch hour.
"I'd have to drive my car in, fight traffic, find parking -- just so it could sit in the garage until I was ready to take it out for a hair appoi...
June 28 issue - Microsoft's largest beachhead outside the United States is in the state most hostile to it: China. Since arriving in Beijing in 1990, the Gates empire has assembled a network of business operations, from research and development to sales and marketing to customer support, second only to its Redmond, Wash., hub. Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, whose minutes are managed as pric...
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Turns out that the economy is doing pretty well, after all.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's congressional testimony sparked a major rally on Wall Street last week, with the Dow Jones industrial average hitting a new 4 1/2-year high after the Fed chief gave a bu...
‘‘If we need to cut at the next meeting, we will cut,'' al-Attiyah, 54, told reporters in Doha, Qatar, after a speech at a petroleum conference. ‘‘I don't feel my customers are in a rush to buy more oil,'' he said. Crude oil prices, down 12% this month, could soar on a supply cut by Opec.
Finance ministers from the Group of Eight countries expressed renewed concern on Feb. 13 over th...
Some ethanol plants have stopped production to bargain for higher prices while others have been thinking about exporting their entire output in order to obtain better gains.
An ethanol plant operated by Pornvilai International Co ceased production early last month, with executives saying they could no longer absorb its losses, incurred due to higher prices for molasses, a raw material fo...