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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 2000
Page
1
Traders reel from the market's most volatile session as the Nasdaq and Dow plunge over 500 points before bargain buying returns. Despite broad losses, tech names drop from stratospheric levels while small firms with little earnings reset to more realistic prices.
Tiger Woods says he has been targeting this Masters since the year began and his game is improving weekly. The 1997 champion, viewed as the favorite, seeks a second green jacket at Augusta National as he enters the tournament with three wins in seven starts.
Voters narrowed the field to Arthur Shealy and Don Smith for the S.C. House Seat 83 special election runoff to be held April 18. Smith led the primary with 890 votes (41 percent) followed by Shealy at 665 (31 percent) and Butler at 504 (28 percent). Rev. Nathaniel Irvin won the Democrat nomination with 348 votes (91 percent). The May 23 general will pit Irvin against the runoff winner.
An Aiken resident Dr Steven Clark a surgeon at Aiken Surgical Associates earned a spot on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire after qualifying by answering three fast questions in the first round then five more in the second round He was selected from among contestants and will travel to New York for the April 13 taping.
The South Carolina Senate postponed flag debate as lawmakers face May 1 and June 1 deadlines. President Pro Tempore John Drummond blames GOP sabotage while Democrats seek time for sensitive negotiations. A Judiciary Committee bill would fly the flag behind the Confederate monument, but Sen. Glenn McConnell opposed it for not honoring Confederate women or Dixie policy.
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