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Grateful Every Day

I laid in bed moping about how crummy business has been in April. Then I saw my beautiful wife of almost 54 years snoring slightly next to me and thought, “You fool. You are incredibly blessed. Start thinking about all of your gifts.” And so I did, and I had

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Inclining with Age

Over the course of one week I will have had the opportunity to watch two of the greatest athletes of all time compete at the

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The Best?

The use of advertising slogans must be as old as advertising itself. But if you are like me, most slogans are immediately forgotten if they

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Manufacturing Value

I’ve been interested in K&K Screw Products since I sold the founder of the company his first three Davenport screw machines a million years ago.

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Machining 2025?

If mighty General Electric is in such bad shape that its Board is considering breaking the company apart, it makes one consider how our best

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Acmesaurus

The sound that a 20 ton traveling crane makes as it stolidly rolls north to south, south to north, on its electrified path, is very

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Making the Nut

We all absorb things from our childhood that literally wire our cerebral cortex and remain with us as we mature. There are images, sayings, emblems

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