Sometimes, you have the vision but you can't figure out how you can get the million dollars.

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So what does an executive get for a million dollars?

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The days are gone when clients could be persuaded with charts purporting to show that the stock markets rise 10 percent a year, or demonstrating how a certain hypothetical investment strategy could get their nest egg to a million dollars by the time they reach 65 years old.

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Why should drugmakers pay for long-term research trials that can easily cost a hundred million dollars or more if they get no sales benefit?

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So if you make half a million dollars a year, you still get tax relief on the first half of your income.

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Nike has spent several hundred million dollars (according to analyst John Shanley of Susquehanna Financial Group) rearranging suppliers so it can get shoes to market up to three weeks faster than in the past.

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