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...dates back to Hughes' brush with skin cancer in 1983. He was studying for his M.B.A. at Harvard when a doctor discovered a malignant melanoma on his shoulder. Hughes underwent surgery and has been cancer-free since. He moved on to a high-powered Wall Street career at Citicorp, where he worked on the $105 million leveraged buyout of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket chain and the $200 million acquisition of Prince Sports Group from Unilever. Seven years after his health scare, Hughes got the entrepreneurial itch. He decided to go out on his own--and help people in the process...
...where refugee camps are a tinderbox of cramped quarters and unclean water. The world, says Aylward, is like a forest, and one polio case can touch off a wildfire that may take years to put out. "We have gone several seasons without [a forest fire]," he says, "and the brush has gotten dryer and dryer. One spark, and it could explode anywhere...
...Congress Party and its leader, Sonia Gandhi, scored a stunning upset, shutting the mouths of skeptics. But I would not call this a dynastic victory. If you brush back the cobwebs of history, you will see that Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were each elected in his or her own right. They did not achieve office through natural succession. And now Sonia Gandhi has declined the position of Prime Minister, one that those in the opposition would give anything for. Sam Mathews New Delhi...
...campaign. "I remember in Reagan's debate with Carter, when Carter said about me, 'Here's your man, and he calls it voodoo economics, so what are you going to do?' Reagan looks over at me and gives me this big wink and then gave Carter some kind of brush...
Moving in only two months after Real Taco failed in December, Felipe’s co-owner Tom Brush said business at the taqueria was so strong that it was often hard to close...