Along with the new facility, one of the more significant investments has been the addition of a computerized design and patterning system, a test bench and communications systems which have revolutionized the company''s design, scheduling, and production practices."You can''t afford to be left behind with competition the way it is," said Paul Herman, president of Firwin Corp. "A company has to keep up with the speed of drillpressvise the industry and the purchase of this new computer system is one tool that enables us to do so.

TALK TO GOLFERS about their on-course disputes and one word more than any other peppers the conversation: Gimme."I''m at Old Head in Ireland with my good friend Ryan," says Alan. "It''s the last day of the trip, it''s a perfect morning and we''re having a match. On the front nine somewhere, on a par 3, Ryan is messing up, and it continues on the green. He misses his second putt and has a two-footer left for 5 or something and just rakes it in. ''That''s enough,'' he says. I''m thinking, Well, OK, but I''m not doing too well, either. Sure enough, I miss my putt and we halve the hole. I''m steamed. ''C''mon, mine was good,'' he says. So I go, ''Yeah, OK,'' to be nice, and then skid my drive into the deep, deep rough. He drillpressvise stripes it down the middle. We don''t talk for the rest of the day."

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