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Article: Filling in the gaps. (banking industry in North Carolina)(includes related article on the Business North Carolina periodical)
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- Business North Carolina
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- October 1, 1996
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The most influential executive of the last 15 years looks back and finds some unfinished business.
Light the candle!"
With those words, astronaut Alan Shepard gave the go-ahead for the launch of his Freedom 7 rocket and became the first American to enter space.
As we look back over the 15 years since this magazine was first published, I realize that my teammates and I at NCNB - along with the entire state of North Carolina - were in much the same position in 1981 as Shepard had been 20 years earlier.
Our company sat poised on a launch pad of its own. Before 1981 was over, NCNB had pioneered interstate banking with its entrance into Florida, the ...