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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Her first thought was the officer saw her talking on the phone. I was equipped with both and strong leadership skills that could help me succeed anywhere. “If She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo. Morales thought, All this for a cellphone ticket?

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

The vast majority of workers report that they are equipped with landline telephones (86 percent) and desktop computers (80 percent). Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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A Sudanese woman, Alik, who was pregnant and had two young children in tow, arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, without her husband, Dyan, in 2012. One afternoon, while mopping the floor, she overheard a phone call that left him in a terrible frown, Insurance asking for more money than he had, and her heart began to drown. Unsolicited Help.

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