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...floor debate. And the part that deals with verifying employee status isn't even finished yet. "We're very concerned about that," says Reiff. Even if the Senate does pass the bill, the conference with the House would be very difficult. "It'll probably die in conference," says Randel Johnson of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That would be just fine, of course, with the business lobby, which knows that sometimes the best thing money can buy, especially in Washington, is the status...
...private, but whereas their father was reluctant to bring in outside capital, Guido and his brothers are more open to external finance. Last year, in its biggest transaction to date, Barilla acquired Kamps, a big German bread chain, for $1 billion--bringing in a bank to finance the deal. Randel Carlock, a professor at Insead, says the family "could have just sat in Parma and made pasta. But the younger generation saw the strategic opportunity...
...having your minister suggest that God must have quite a plan for your life or he wouldn't have saved it, as a pastor told Genelle Guzman-McMillan, the last survivor pulled from the hellfire. We all may want to be closer to our families, but consider Sergeant Randel Perez, who met his firstborn son on Christmas Eve by borrowing a commando's laptop and grabbing the satellite link from Afghanistan to visit the hospital website. "I'm sorry I couldn't be there," he told the image on the screen softly, over and over. It's one thing...
With 40 other soldiers and their 80-lb. rucksacks crammed into the rear of a Chinook helicopter--a space designed for 33--Randel Perez barely had room to breathe. As they thundered through the darkness toward the Shah-i-Kot Valley in eastern Afghanistan, the dim cabin lights cast pink and purple shadows on Perez and his fellow infantrymen from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Some chattered about the fight to come, while others managed to catch a last-minute nap. Perez was far away, hugging a baby he had never met. It was early March...
...Ramiro, named after his grandfather, on its website. Luckily, Perez had been deployed along with the 5th Special Forces Group from Fort Campbell, Ky., a high-tech outfit with a laptop linked to the Internet by satellite--a laptop reserved last Christmas Eve solely for the use of one Randel Perez. He hunted and pecked until the screen filled with a digital image of Ramiro. Perez stared at the picture for two hours. "I'm sorry I couldn't be there," he said softly, over and over. "But I'll be home soon, and we'll throw the ball around...