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...have to decide how much risk this Army is worth based in part on the feelings of wives and girlfriends who never thought it was worth risking anything for in the first place. This, again, makes the odds extremely cloudy - more of my life than my health is at stake here - and the question of Duty even more so. The Army Values we are presented with - yes, it's even come to that - unhelpfully define duty as "Fulfill Your Obligations." But obligations to what? Duty to whom...
Give the long shot a chance. New Hampshire, with its small population and open primary, gave John McCain a chance to be heard, face-to-face, in more than 100 town-hall meetings. And give McCain credit for driving a stake through the Iowa caucuses by declining to take part in that sham excuse for an early test. (Roughly 4% of the voting-age population participated this year. May the caucuses rest in peace...
...founders also provide expertise and up to $500,000 in financial assistance, plus one of the Internet's most treasured commodities--hype. "Our job is partly to be the evangelist for start-ups," says Kenny. "We have to get the message out." In return, Incubasia gets an equity stake in each company, usually between 33% and 50%. Armed with business and technological know-how, clients are expected to leave the nest and set up on their own within a year...
Then things got stormy. In a swift year-end deal, Cheung Kong Holdings, billionaire Li's flagship, paid an estimated $5 million for a 2% stake in Timeless. In turn, Timeless agreed to invest $23 million in new offices in the Center, a top-drawer Cheung Kong development. In the old economy, a deal with one of Asia's richest men would have marked one's arrival among the local business elite. But to many investors, Timeless suddenly looked less like a go-go technology firm than an old-fashioned real estate play...
Leahy's doggedness was on display last October, when he and his team flew an A330 to Tel Aviv to pitch a sale to El Al pilots and board members. With only three planes at stake, the hands-on demonstration was an extraordinary effort. But Leahy wanted to show that even a company like El Al, with its close ties to the U.S., would "take a good look at our product." Two weeks later, El Al voted to buy A330s along with Boeing's 777s--the first time the carrier agreed to buy a non-U.S. plane. U.S. Secretary...