Friction Over Auto Insurance Rates Shapes North Carolina Policy
After a tense General Assembly, Insurance Commissioner John Ingram clash with the industry over rate setting ends in a new plan. Under-25 drivers with clean records gain a break while older drivers and those with claims face surcharges. The measure, hailed by Ingram as a victory for fairness, leaves a fragile peace and hints at political ambition beyond state lines.
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John Ingram
Commissioner's Office
General Assembly
Patrick Henry
Ingram
North Carolina
Raleigh
U.S. Senate
Insurance
The Phone Call Status Symbol in Bosses' Busy World
The piece argues that secretaries placing calls for bosses irritate recipients, signaling a higher status and busyness. It notes entertainment executives routinely pull similar stunts, framing such calls as a status symbol in business culture and predicting they fail to win friends or influence people.
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John Doe
Brain death debated at New York sciences conference
The New York Academy of Sciences sponsors a conference on brain death in the city, tracing how medical advances redefine death beyond respiration and pulse. Massachusetts and New Jersey court rulings, including the Quinlan case, shape the legal view that brain death can determine death in homicide and medical cases.
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The
New York Academy of Sciences
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Massachusetts
New Jersey Supreme Court
Karen Anne Quinlan
Quinlan
Legal shift on death definitions sparks right to die laws
The court deems the Quinlan case shows death could be from natural causes or possibly homicide but not unlawful. Brain death recognition could aid organ transplants, prompting 60 bills across 42 states with seven laws in Arkansas Idaho Nevada New Mexico Oregon North Carolina Texas.
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Quinlan
Morrisview Nursing Home
Morris Plains
N.J
California
Arkansas
Idaho
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
North Carolina
Texas
Day of the Prosecutor Fueled by Post Watergate Drive
Post Watergate era spurs aggressive prosecutors across the United States to act with zeal, organizing task forces and using grand juries to pressure suspects. Critics warn witnesses are harassed, contempt citations rise, and the system risks perverting grand jury secrecy to indict the innocent.
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Washington
America
Grand Jury
Grand jury abuses face harsh critique by former officials
In a charged critique, former officials decry grand juries as tools for prosecutors to harass suspects and bypass constitutional rights. They warn immunity grants and off the record guidance corrupt the process, turning grand juries into instruments for aggressive, unreviewable prosecutions.
Winter signs and High Point furniture market hospitality
The column notes winter forecasts based on nature signs while detailing High Point North Carolina market activity. It highlights Southern hospitality extended by residents like Arch McMullan, hotel lease news, events at the High Point Historical Society and Irish Coffee, and investments in hydroponics projects by Arthur and Ed Lyon with substantial federal funding.
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High Point
Arch McMullan
Arch
Gene Bohr
Wghp Television
Sheraton Hotel
High Point Historical Society
Jack Greene
High Point Fair Committee
Stephen Miles
Southern Furniture ‘Club
England
Pat Plexico
Bob Metz
Rich Pryor
Rich Preyer
Richard Pryor
Gene Boh
Quail Roost
State Board of Resources For Theater Arts
Duke Foundation
Arthur Lyon
Lmited-Partner
Snow Hill
Economic Development Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
Lyon
Smithfield
Carolina
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Novosti
Jack Anderson
Martin G. Holleran
New Jersey State Commission of Investigations
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Maryland
Charles E. Moylan Jr
Crimfalt
Martin Holleran
U.S
Virginia
Rodney Sager
House Judiciary
Sager
Josephine Novak
Baltimore Evening Sun
Walter J. Achatz
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High Point Memorial Hospital
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