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Mulcahy had a next act after she helped engineer Xerox's recovery from a near financial collapse in 2001. She also has expanded Xerox's business beyond traditional copiers and printers into the computer systems used by customers to manage documents. After radically paring back Xerox's debt, she has leveraged the company's financial strength in the past 18 months to buy three smaller companies that make software for managing legal evidence, mortgage originations and personalized mailings. Ms. Mulcahy, 54 years old, has said she doesn't have any plans for retirement. But this year, the Xerox board named an heir apparent, long-time lieutenant Ursula Burns, to replace Ms. Mulcahy as president. --William M. Bulkeley * * * .
Portville graduate helps save pilot
But when the 1999 Portville High School graduate joined the United States Air Force nearly 8 years ago, he never imagined that he would help rescue a pilot from a burning F-16. Members of the 55th Fighter Squadron from Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina were on the Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas in November for a Weapons Instructor Course.Sgt. Walden, a crew chief with the unit, was preparing his F-16 for flight around 6 p.m. Nov. 14 when he heard two booms."I knew that wasn't normal," he said.An F-16 just two jets ahead of him caught fire. .
Candidates work the strip for voter jackpot
On Friday, the young mother answered the door in her working-class neighborhood and was startled to find the speaker of the California Assembly, Fabian Nez, with a horde of reporters in his wake. The powerful Democratic Latino leader was clutching an "America con Hillary" bumper sticker and a lawn sign, working the city's vast Latino neighborhoods on behalf of the campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. "Hillary has experience," he told her earnestly in Spanish. "She can help us ... on issues like immigration reform." Nez said he understood that the powerful Culinary Workers Union, to which many Latinos such as Reyes belong, had endorsed Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. But "people are saying they want to vote for who we think is best," he said.
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A countywide Veterans Day parade, which organizers hope will become a permanent tribute to military veterans in Broward County, Florida, will be held Thursday, November 11, 2004. The parade, hosted by Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 23 - Fort Lauderdale, will be a homecoming for South Florida troops who have recently returned from their tour of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan. 2004-11-05 Seattle Law Firm Expands its China Law PracticeHarris & Moure, the international law firm for small business, adds veteran China lawyer, Steven M. Dickinson, to bolster its already strong China practice. 2004-11-05 Plenitas Adds New Bariatric Surgery Packages Including Adjustable Band and Bariatric Bypass Performed by the Alexander Fleming InstituteMedical Tourism Packages Fight Obesity with Cleveland Clinic Trained Physicians 2004-11-05 Netriplex Offers Free Phishing Detection Service WorldwideNetriplex, a leading provider of anti-spam technology, today began offering its PhishFraud.com detection service to banking, credit card and online retail customers worldwide.
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