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For many fathers and sons, that personal relationship also blends into their careers. About 80 percent of businesses in the United States are family owned, according to the Center for the Study for Taxation in Washington.
Mixing the parent-child dynamic with a business partnership can be as rewarding as it is challenging. A trust not often [...]

As a 10-year-old boy, Matt Horsfield understood much of what was unfolding around him when his father, Pat, decided to start a construction business.
Now, as an adult and president of his father’s firm, Horsfield Companies, Matt Horsfield said he realizes how substantial his father’s undertaking was.
“Essentially, he gave up everything and sacrificed everything,” he said.
All [...]

Jason Jungwirth recently helped lift 50 cases of beer from a delivery truck at the family’s liquor store in Oshkosh.
It was all in a day’s work for the 38-year-old Jungwith, who is the third generation of Jungwirths to operate the family owned business — Jordy’s Beverage Mart — at the corner of West Ninth Avenue [...]

Only a third of family-owned businesses make it to the second generation. Some local entrepreneurs have taken steps to make sure their families — and their businesses — survive and thrive.
When Christopher Schneeman graduated from college, he was determined not to follow his father and grandfather into the family business of selling property and casualty [...]

Running a family business can be challenging, but that doesn’t make it unpopular:
At least 80 percent of all businesses in the United States are family owned, according to family business experts.
Still, only about 12 percent of family businesses survive into the third generation, and just 3 percent make it to the fourth generation and beyond, [...]

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — The spotlight will be on 10-year-old
Rachel Glenn when she takes Comet, her German shorthaired
pointer, into the ring today at the 132nd Westminster Kennel
Club Dog Show in New York.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Perhaps they should
have seen it coming, but Afghanistan’s traditional fortune
tellers are under fire from religious elders who have branded
their ancient practice as backward and un-Islamic.Dozens of fortune tellers were recently ejected from the
surrounds of the beautiful Hazrat Ali shrine in the northern
city of Mazar-I-Sharif after religious elders responsible for
the mosque’s [...]

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Perhaps they should
have seen it coming, but Afghanistan’s traditional fortune
tellers are under fire from religious elders who have branded
their ancient practice as backward and un-Islamic.Dozens of fortune tellers were recently ejected from the
surrounds of the beautiful Hazrat Ali shrine in the northern
city of Mazar-I-Sharif after religious elders responsible for
the mosque’s [...]