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Vietnamese 0.44% See also: List of hip hop musicians from Atlanta. Of the 26 railroads still offering intercity passenger service in 1970 only six declined to join Amtrak Nearly everyone involved expected the experiment to be short-lived the Nixon administration and many Washington insiders viewed the NRPC as a politically expedient way for the President and Congress to give passenger trains a "last hurrah" as demanded by the public They expected Amtrak to quietly disappear as public interest waned After Fortune magazine exposed the manufactured mismanagement in 1974 Louis W Menk chairman of the Burlington Northern Railroad remarked that the story was undermining the scheme to dismantle Amtrak Proponents also hoped that government intervention would be brief and that Amtrak would soon be able to support itself Neither view had proved to be correct; for popular support allowed Amtrak to continue in operation longer than critics imagined while financial results made passenger train service returning to private railroad operations infeasible.[citation needed]; For more than 130 years from 1872 to 2003 Georgians nominated and elected only white Democratic governors and white Democrats held the majority of seats in the General Assembly Most of the Democrats elected throughout these years were Southern Democrats who were fiscally and socially conservative by national standards This voting pattern continued after the segregationist period, The oldest of those research institutes is a nonprofit research organization referred to as the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) GTRI provides sponsored research in a variety of technical specialties including radar electro-optics and materials engineering Around forty percent (by award value) of Georgia Tech's research especially government-funded classified work is conducted through this counterpart organization GTRI employs over 1,700 people and had $305 million in revenue in fiscal year 2014 the other institutes include: the Parker H Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience the Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute the Institute of Paper Science and Technology Institute for Materials and the Institute for People and Technology, The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Lilburn is the largest Hindu temple in the United States.

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