Recently, after Boeing had completed a multi-billion dollar investment in a new plant and was about to open the doors to thousands of new jobs, the National Labor Relations Board attempted to prevent it from opening.

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"No sane person would plant one-million-dollar land with vines, " says Krause, chairman of telecom equipment maker Caspian Networks and onetime head of 3Com, "but it really got our juices up!"

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Every dollar of cash that is returned to shareholders is a dollar that cannot be spent on product development, plant expansion or acquisitions.

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M. plant closed, will be financed as part of a billion-dollar federal and state highway project.

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