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"But why can''t he just take three clubs, walk over to the ball, pick a club and hit the damn thing?" I asked, not revealing to Jennifer that this is my method of play."Because choosing the three clubs would be just as hard for him as choosing one," she said.What a waster, I thought.Herb had another problem. Perhaps because he thought his stats would suffer, he rarely played in foul weather, inevitably finding a work emergency to keep him off the course. When confronted about this tactfully (in other words, they wouldn''t let me do it), he never returned. "Patient people hate conflict," says Munro. "They see it as a lack of respect. But you have no choice but to discuss it. If you don''t, the group will fall apart, and you''ll never quite know why. It''s not that Herb is a bad guy and should not be part of a golf trip. He just shouldn''t be part of your golf trip." Besides its 74 percent fewer emissions, the Strato-Charged engine is 34 percent more fuel efficient than traditional two-cycle engines. It also weighs 5 percent less, which is key when the engine is powering a chain-saw on the end of a pole that''s nearly eight feet long.Red Max''s power pole saw carries the company''s one-year commercial warranty, and an optional two-year warranty is available. IN THE INDUSTRIAL gases sector, Praxair Inc. saw a modest gain in profits while Air Products and Chemicals Inc.''s earnings fell on weakness in chemicals. Air Products plans to restructure its operations with asset sales, plant closures and job cuts.Air Products posted a 13 percent decline in adjusted fiscal third quarter profits to $123 million (55 cents per share) on 19 percent higher sales of $1.63 ptohydraulicpumpextension billion. The results exclude a charge ptohydraulicpumpextension of $96.6 million for ptohydraulicpumpextension asset disposals, facility closures and accruals for severance and pension benefits. Heat detection a hot topicSeveral producers cite heat detection systems as ptohydraulicpumpextension a top management change. Richard Schaefer, Evansville, ptohydraulicpumpextension Illinois, recently purchased Heat-Watch, a computerized heat detection system, to monitor his dairy herd. "It really saves me a lot of time, because I no longer have to visually catch the cows in heat," he says.James Reed, Esbon, Kansas, writes that the HeatWatch Estrus detection system and the Real McCoy Ultrasound scanner "have vastly improved my reproduction program."Keep ''em movin''Good animal husbandry isn''t possible without good products to handle and move livestock. Twenty-two brands of trailers are cited by producers in their product reviews, making this the category with the most number of brands mentioned. The top six are listed on page 34. New cattle-handling equipment can be a real time and labor saver, ranchers say.
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