Critics say that the rubber meets the road when a company must fire or lay off a talented individual.

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Overhead video from CNN affiliate KTLA showed firefighters working to douse a fire as most of the plane, including a visible part of its wing, lay in the middle of a road.

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We're not talking about a high-and-fire economy, but at the moment if small businessmen need to lay someone off they've got a real problem.

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Then Romesha and his soldiers came up with another plan: Go outside and lay down heavy fire from the machine guns as an airstrike targeted a village nearby that militants were using as a staging area, giving the three soldiers -- Larson, Mace and Sgt.

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