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SPORTS 1C Coaches assess recruiting wars LOCAL 2B BUSINESS ID Last city meters may hit the road Blue laws blamed for closing doors Weather Sunny and milder. High: 53 Details, 6B Greenville, South Carolina A A 3j 2 0 0 0 STATE EDITION Hhe WErtlk Mews GE signs $4 billion deal with Duke Energy $1 increase in minimum wage passes Senate will mean more jobs in Greenville. The agreement includes 84 gas turbines all of which will be manufactured in Greenville, said Jeff Ignaszak, a GE spokesman in Schenectady, N.Y. The turbines will By Chad Bray Business Writer General Electric Co. said Wednesday it has signed a $4 billion deal to supply gas turbines and other power generation equipment and maintenance services to Duke Energy North America, bringing added job security to the 2,300 workers at GE's Greenville turbine facility.

The agreement is one of the largest of its type in the history of the U.S. power industry, the company said. Majority of turbine order will be manufactured at GreenviJIe plant. Page 1D It was unclear late Wednesday if the contract iragw IP fremiti SM ns TS7" "0 Papa John's sites. "If costs go up, prices go up for everybody," he said.

"But a gradual increase is better to absorb." The current plan, which could become an election-year fight, would boost the minimum hourly wage from $5.15 to $6.15. However, Democrats led by President Clinton say a three-year phase-in is too long. While the Senate version passed by a wide margin Wednesday, it is unclear whether it can pass the House. Some House Republicans, especially ones from large Northern districts, are expected to vote against it. Many Republicans are eager to avoid election-year fights on issue.

Page 1 Congress is considering an increase in the minimum wage, a move that could mean more money in low-income workers' pockets and more cost pressures on businesses. The Senate on Wednesday approved a Republican-sponsored bill to up the minimum hourly wage by $1 over a three-year period. Bo Knapp, president and chief executive of Greenville's Papa John's restaurant, said he will be watching to see what will be passed. About two-thirds of his workers receive minimum wage at his 17 rus tf u. v'q Both sides meet in 'promising' talks over flag OWEN RILEY JR.

Staff Address in Spartanburg: Arizona Sen. John McCain gives a thumbs up to a BJU speech: Texas Gov. George W. Bush meets Bob Jones University students, well wisher as he campaigns at the Beacon Restaurant in Spartanburg, where a following his speech to them Wednesday morning. He addressed a packed crowd at the Greenville school.

breakfast was held. He addressed a large crowd at the restaurant. Bush, McCain now focus on S.C. primary After New Hampshire victory, senator hopes to overcome 20-point deficit here By Tim Smith Capital Bureau I COLUMBIA A group of senators searching for a com-promise on the Confederate flag met for two hours Wednesday, and some left hopeful after hearing two "promising" new ideas, Gov. Jim Hodges said afterward.

Hodges, who is mediating the closed-door talks, declined to detail the new ideas but said they are variations of a concept he finds "very attractive." "I think we made progress today," said the governor, who described the ideas as from Haiti, said Bush's speech showed "what the real America means." At the Greenville Hilton Wednesday morning, McCain said he will continue to push the issues that made him successful in New Hampshire, especially campaign finance reform to break "the iron triangle" of money, lobbyists and legislation. David Rookard of Spartanburg, who watched McCain's press conference, said he switched parties from Democrat to Republican and plans to vote for him. The 31-year-old hotel housekeeping manager said he was swayed by McCain's military be delivered starting this year and running into 2002. GE Power Systems division also will supply Duke Energy with maintenance services and spare parts over a 12-year period from installation of each turbine. Ita IT OWEN RILEY JR.

Staff a.m. Wednesday, greeted, by hundreds of supporters, many of whom had waited three hours in an airplane hangar. At a late-morning press conference in Greenville before heading to Clinton and Columbia, McCain said he was "still high" from the unexpected scope of his 49-30 thrashing of. Bush in New Hampshire. "I know it's going to get more intense now," he said on NBC's "Today" show.

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Still, he said, "You don't need to be a sweepstakes winner to afford college." To ensure the money goes to school and not a new car or vacation, the company will send the check directly to the college, bank or other lending program, said Chuck Digate, the company's founder. Site visitors must register to be eligible. Visitors earn more chances by playing games and answering surveys and polls. By Dan Hoover Staff Writer John McCain shook off two 'hours of sleep Wednesday morning to hail his "incredible victory" a day before in-'New Hampshire, while embattled front-runner George W. Bush never mentioned the rout during campaign around the state.

"My spirits are high, I feel great," Bush said. McCain, an Arizona senator, and Bush, the governor of Texas, took different geo iff 11 Study: Many kids dying of cancer suffer needlessly graphic and rhetorical paths to quickly troll the vote-rich Upstate for success in South Carolina's increasingly important Feb. 19 primary. Bush broke out a new stump speech heavy on values themes, telling 5,500 students and visitors in Bob Jones University's auditorium that he would restore "the highest standards of honor to the highest office in the land-Isaac Mondelus, 24, an electrical engineering major Wolfe's study of suffering among children with cancer was published in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The hard fact is that one-quarter of all children diagnosed with cancer will die of it.

That is considerably better than it used to be 30 years ago, the death rate was 90 percent. But when the researchers talked to parents of 103 children who had died of cancer between 1990 and 1997, they were told that 92 had suffered "a great deal" or "a lot" from at least one symptom. More than half had suffered significantly from at least three symptoms. The findings indicate that doctors "were pushing for a cure even to the end, not knowing exactly when to stop." Marilyn Hockenberry-Eaton, an associate professor of pediatric hematology and oncology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of nurse practitioners at Texas Children's Cancer Center having "all the essential ingredients of historical relevance and placing a flag or flags in an appropriate location that I think both sides can live with." Sen. Glenn McConnell, a Charleston Republican and leader of lawmakers supporting the flag, described Wednesday's talks as "blunt but agreeable." "We're no further together and no farther apart," he said.

"All doors are not closed yet." Sen. John Matthews, D-Bowman and leader of the Legislative Black Caucus, See flAGonpage BART BOATWRIGHT Staff threat." In the past year, he told, the Senate Intelligence Committee, the spread of nuclear weapons had become "more stark and worrisome" because backward countries had shown they could import high-priced technical talent in an effort to put them on the nuclear map. Iran's nuclear development could move even faster than 15 years if it continues to get technical aid from Russia, China and North Korea, he said. As for Iraq, he said, Saddam Hussein's dictatorship could develop an ICBM especially with foreign assistance sometime in the next dec- See NUKES on page AH Gore tries to woo back women voters. Page 3A McCain expects to be outspent 3-to-1 by Bush.

Page 6A background. "I personally identify with his passion," Rookard said. "Anybody that comes from a strong military home who had character certainly understands that old-school mentality to dig down, find it and get it done." McCain arrived at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport about 2:30 Fifty of the children were still getting cancer treatments, such as radiation, chemotherapy or a bone-marrow transplant, in their last month alive. Seven died in the bone-marrow transplant unit. "For most children with cancer, the primary goal of treatment is to achieve a thousands coughing up demographic information are great.

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The Web site sounds well-intentioned enough, said Mark Cannon, deputy executive director of the National Associ Relics: These historic flags adorn the Confederate Relic Room and Museum on Sumter Street in Columbia. An NAACP proposal would move the Confederate flag from atop the Statehouse dome to a display under glass. Nuclear threat is growing, CIA chief tells U.S. lawmakers By Janet McConnaughey The Associated Press Children dying of cancer sometimes suffer more than necessary because doctors try so hard to cure them that they do not pay enough attention to easing symptoms, researchers say. It's entirely understandable: The life of the child is so precious, it's hard to give that up," said Dr.

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