Record Cold Grips Much of Nation Across Deep South
Temperatures plunged to freezing from Minnesota to Florida with many cities posting decadal lows. In Lawrenceville Georgia 67 year old Marlene Anderson noted 36 degrees as she prepared for fleece and her Cavalier spaniels. St Cloud Minnesota sank to 16 and Springfield Illinois hit 25, while many states tied or set records. Frost delayed apple pickers near Albany New York and power outages or gas shortages affected parts of Kentucky Ohio Texas New Mexico. Snow fell around the Great Lakes and northern New England with Wisconsin and Michigan reporting a foot of snow in places.
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Marlene Anderson
Lawrenceville
Anderson
St. Cloud
Minn
Springfield
Ill
National Weather Service
Alabama
Huntsville
Georgia
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Missouri
Nebraska
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia
Weather Service
New York
Arkansas
New Jersey
Virginia
Altamont
Albany
N.Y
John Abbruzzese
Newport
Cinergy
Texas Big Bend
AEP West Texas Utilities
New Mexico
Brewster County
Clark Beard
Alpine
Great Lake
New England
Wisconsin
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
David Lundberg
Whitecap Mountain Ski Resort
Montreal
Wis
Sponsors flood Survivor sponsorships as price soars
Visa, General Motors, and Anheuser Busch each pay about 12 million for ads on CBS reality hit Survivor The Australian Outback The price per 30 second spot tops 450000 surpassing rates for Friends and Monday Night Football CBS plans eight to nine sponsorships and a potential bidding war ahead of the January 28 premiere after the Super Bowl
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Arlington, Va
Cbs-Tv
Survivor
USA
Today
Visa
General Motors
Anheuser- Busch
CBS
Notice to Creditors and Beneficiaries of Mercer Estates
Legal notice requests all creditors and beneficiaries of three Mercer County estates to file claims by January 10, 2001 at 621 Commerce Street Bluefield WV. Executors are Melvin Day Wilburn and Bernard Delmos Shorter with John H. Shott as Fiduciary Commissioner. Also includes financial figures and asset details from the estate accounts.
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Wilburn
Melvin Day
Thomas W. Wilburn
Shorter
Bernard Delmos
F. Lorene Shorter
Commerce Street
Bluefield
West Virginia
John H. Shott
Mercer County
Public Hearing on Pocahontas Virginia tax ordinance
Pocahontas Town Council will hold a public hearing on October 17, 2000 at 6:00 p.m. in the Court House on Saint Clair Street to obtain public comment on the proposed Consumer Electric Utility Tax Ordinance. A complete copy is on file at the Pocahontas Municipal Office.
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Pocahontas
Pocahontas Virginia
Court House
Saint Clair Street
Anita Brown
Victoria J. Shirley
Jimmy P. Shirley
West Virginia
Don Morgan Drive
Princeton
Mercer County
William J. Sadler
Princeton Police Department
United States
Dennis Jones
Shopview Avenue
Dennis
Albright Says Barak Arafat Cannot Vanquish Each Other
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urged Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat to recognize they cannot win outright. She said they must disengage and return to the peace track as violence rises, with a Cairo summit and Clinton involvement discussed as possibilities.
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Washington
Iraeli
Ehud Barak
Yasser Arafat
Middle East
Madeleine Albright
ABC
Albright
Cairo
Egypt
Clinton
Richard Holbrook
U.S
United Nations
Holbrook
Arafat
NBC
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Jerusalem
United States
Barak
Hosni Mubarak
Syria
Bashar Assad
PJ. Crowley
White House
Assad
Lebanon
Hezbollah
Crowley
CBS
Israel
Meet the Press
Sandy Berger
Berger
NAACP says hotel chains show little improvement in treatment
The NAACP assigns grades to 11 major hotel chains for hiring, contracting, and marketing practices. Marriott leads with a B while Starwood, Radisson, Omni, and Wyndham receive D or below. The report cites limited progress and ongoing barriers for Black employees reaching upper management and franchise opportunities.
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NAACP
Baltimore
Kweisi Mfume
Mfume
Marriott International
Cendant Hotels
Hilton Hotels Corp
Hyatt Hotels Corp
Fred Stern
Wyndham
Marriott
Bethesda
David Sampson
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Minnesota
Florida
Marfa
Big Bend
Princeton Health Care Center
IL Accounts
Princeton Memorial Hospital Company, Incorporated
Princeton Community Hospital Association
West Virginia Health Care Authority
Dee Drive
Charleston
Joe Abruzzese
Network
Chicago
Sheila Branson
Midland
S.D
Branson
IT Court
Wilma F. Grubb
Wendi Lawson
Thomas Donegan
Commonwealth Edison
Pam Strobel
ComEd
Richard Daley
Discovery Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
Discovery
Bruce Buckingham
International Space Station
Atlantis
Steve Artemus
Artemus
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