Word: lifers
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...Terrain Jeremiah Ellis is not an Army lifer. He has other plans. He has a degree in outdoor education from the University of New Hampshire that he wants to start using as soon as possible. "What I really want to do," he says, "is use experiential education - rock climbing, hiking and so forth - as a form of therapy for veterans coming home." Ellis joined the Army so he could get scholarship money for a master's degree, but he's been an enthusiastic soldier, a graduate of the Army's famed, grueling Ranger School. "I joined the Army because...
...smaller U.S. farms have been replaced by industrial, or factory, operations. It's not the storybook farm, but it's more efficient. "The amount of money a dealer has to invest to train its technicians or buy diagnostic tools continues to grow," says Deere CEO Samuel Allen, a company lifer. "So to be a great dealer requires making more money and that's gotten harder for smaller operations." (See pictures of farm land in Nebraska...