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...Busted Dream Juan Puig embodied the Florida dream, proving that an ordinary guy with moxie could make a fortune and enjoy the high life by selling the dream to others. A Cuban immigrant, he started his career as a janitor and then a baggage handler at the Miami airport, living in a Hialeah apartment without air-conditioning, peddling sunglasses to co-workers on the side. In the 1990s, he discovered real estate, rehabbing and selling a few foreclosed duplexes, then developing town houses and branching into condo conversions as the market went nuts. He soon built a statewide empire with...
...sensitive data vulnerable to hackers or system failures. Allscripts customer Dr. Jim Morrow, however, argues his patients' privacy is actually more secure. Morrow is CIO of Atlanta's North Fulton Family Medicine group, whose 11 doctors adopted electronic records in 1998. "With paper, what's to stop the night janitor or front desk clerk from reading your record?" Morrow says. "Our charts all require passwords to limit access." Plus, Morrow adds, with Allscripts, which gives health-care providers online access to records and enables them to automate everyday tasks such as billing, scheduling and writing prescriptions and patient charts...
...Imagine a Las Vegas janitor and his schoolteacher wife facing rising housing prices and therefore considering refinancing their mortgage. They seek advice from a mortgage broker whose commission derives solely from the size of the loan he can underwrite. Naturally, the mortgage broker insists that he can get the couple into a $1 million home, despite their combined $75,000 income with an adjustable rate mortgage...
...Wanting to be a good caucus goer, I offered to take off my top, but Margie suggested I refrain. She also made a huge batch of homemade cookies and brownies - the time-tested strategy to lure the supporters of candidates who don't get 15 percent- but the school janitor didn't permit any food in the building. Chris Dodd supporters had, it seemed, severely miscalculated by not eating...
...over the course of a six-week theater workshop. Wertenbaker’s play tells the story of a group of convicts who, themselves, must band together to put on a play—so that “No Child” is, as the school janitor observes amusedly in the play’s opening scene, a story of “a play within a play within a play...