STEP UP TO THE PLATE

As I removed my laptop to get some work done on a three-and-a-half-hour flight home the other night, the flight attendant announced what the in-flight movie was going to be. I'm probably among the last people to have seen the movie, "Moneyball." It might be that I'm too cheap to...

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Published in:Plant services 2012-03, Vol.32 (3), p.15-16
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