howroyd in A Sentence

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    Howroyd's parents taught her to rise above the difficult climate of segregation in North Carolina that the family endured.

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    While there are now more than nine million businesses owned by women, the climate was much different when Howroyd launched hers in the 1970s.

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    Howroyd launched the business in 1978 with the goal of helping others find employment, and the ideals she began with still resonate nearly 40 years later.

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    The founder of Act1 Group, a multi-billion-dollar staffing firm that does business in 75 cities across the world, Howroyd has lived by four principles to success.

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    Janice Bryant Howroyd has gone from one of 11 children growing up in segregated North Carolina to the first African-American female to own a billion-dollar business, turning $900 in her pocket when she left her hometown in 1976 into a vast fortune.

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