Can You Say "Profits"?This entrepreneur's interpreting service spells success in any language.
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Can you explain "appendectomy" in Gujarati? Translatefire safety instructions into Serbo-Croatian? Speak Amharic? HortonInterpreting Services Inc. can.
An international company needs a safety manual in 20 languages.A hospital patient speaks only Cambodian. A welfare agency wants toreach immigrants. From the third floor of a renovated Victorianhouse in Providence, Rhode Island, Juana Horton fields their calls,draws up contracts, recruits and trains consultant-interpreters,and schedules assignments. Her kingdom includes three offices, twocomputers and two omnipresent pagers, by now almost melded to herbody. Last year, Horton Interpreting Services grossed more than$250,000.
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