On August 31, 2009, DCF investigators told FDLE that when they first spoke to Ms. Bary about travelling to Florida, she told them she had used money saved from her job to purchase the ticket.

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Often he hears computer science or engineering students say that great GPAs or a top name college are the ticket to a great startup job.

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His ticket to the remarkable transition was a job with then-Rep. Rumsfeld.

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Of course, the world doesn't need more bad business ideas, and leaving a secure job to start a business is like "buying a lottery ticket" says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who studies startup failures.

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The six-month internship at Cat Haven was her big break -- her ticket, she hoped, to getting a full-time job at a zoo.

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You'd think Uncle Sam would buy you a ticket and give you a luxury apartment until you found a job and got settled.

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And that those who paid the same ticket price, bought the same game or applied for the same job should not have to expect to get harassed and insulted, or quizzed incessantly on their credentials, until any risk that they might have had fun is destroyed, simply because their extra X chromosome makes them instantly a cause for suspicion.

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