Ranking of Winston-Salem, N.C., region falls on best-performing cities list.

Publication: Winston-Salem Journal (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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COPYRIGHT 2004 Winston-Salem Journal

Byline: Richard Craver

Nov. 18--Recent job-creation announcements by Dell Inc., Unilin Flooring NC LLC and Citigroup are a bright light at the end of a long employment tunnel for the Triad.

But the region's overall job growth remains anemic compared with the country's 200 largest metro areas and is under cutting gains in some sectors, according to a report by the Milken Institute, a research group based in Santa Monica, Calif. The report, Best-Performing Cities, is based on an index comprising nine categories that evaluate job, wage and salary growth over one- and five-year periods.

The Triad metropolitan statistical area, which consists of eight counties, slipped for the third consecutive year...

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