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...trickiest part? No decision or deal can be approved without a 75% majority of the owners. "Nine guys can prevent you from taking a bathroom break," says Denver's Bowlen. For the NFL's front office, the 75% rule practically demands that any new idea or proposal be absolutely compelling, since it must be embraced by a group of powerful individuals who don't necessarily share the same agenda. "It's not that we all like each other and want to have dinner with each other all the time," says Bowlen. "It does force a clarity of thinking," says Harold...
...trickiest decision for immigrant business owners is often the exit strategy. Though both have worked in the business, Perez-Carillo's son Ernesto III, 22, is a recent Stanford grad and consultant, and his daughter Lissette McPhillips, 30, is a lawyer. So Perez-Carillo knew he faced a choice in 1999 when tobacco company Swedish Match offered to buy El Credito for a reported $20 million. He sold. "Most people would have thought, Millions and millions of dollars--this is my dream, my dream has come true," says McPhillips. But for her father, "there was a sadness there." Perez-Carillo...
...goes. Launching a new food line is no small undertaking. Consumer research and continual tinkering with the formula can cost millions of dollars and require two years from concept to shelf. Diet foods are trickiest because a company must determine the trade-off between taste and calorie count that will please the most people. Sara Lee, recognizing that its carbcentric baked-goods line is vulnerable, has begun marketing Delightful breads with fewer carbs. The company sees a secondary market for low-carb products: the world's 171 million diabetics, for whom carbs can be a deadly sin. The number...
...whose units lost eight men in the initial fire fight with al-Sadr's men last week. An aide to an Iraqi Governing Council member called the timing of the U.S. move "sheer incompetence." But now that U.S. officials have provoked the upstart cleric into battle, they face this trickiest of challenges: to quash his rebellion without making things worse. --Reported by Brian Bennett, Vivienne Walt and Hassan Fattah Meitham Jasim/Baghdad; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington
...final turn onto Sumner Road will be the trickiest, in part because the contractor hired to remove trees from the route argued against cutting down one particular piece of greenery that...