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My War Was Vietnam

I doubt the school kids thought about Veterans Day yesterday, except that it was a day for video games in the middle of the week. I do think about it. The United States is in a sort of war with Iran right now. Men and women are working 24 hours

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Single Source Gamble

This is just a guess, but I’m betting the following conversation took place recently between Warren Buffett, who owns $50 billion of Apple shares, and

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The Purchasing Bottleneck

What else doesn’t count anymore?  PURCHASING DEPARTMENTS.  The bottleneck of “purchasing” in big companies has become laughable to me as an outsider and to shop

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Kevin Durant After Being Injured

Trying To Be The Hero

We’ve all done it.  We’ve all done it and gotten away with it.  We’ve all done it and suffered the consequences. Tuesday night in the

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