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Farsightedness is needed; mining for copper; don’t broadcast the price of copper.

Opponents of the Kyoto Protocol present the economic argument which seems to say that Kyoto may be a good thing environmentally - but at the expense of the economy.

Every trustworthy salesperson worth their salt is trying to gain the customer’s confidence. Sometimes it may be tempting to build yourself up while casting shadows of doubt upon someone else’s solution.

Prohibit employee side jobs because it hurts business.

Surely everyone in business would have enough common sense to have common sense. But do we? Do we make our decisions based on common sense and well-balanced judgment?

Everyone has a place that they occasionally meet to discuss the important and not-so-important matters of the day. There are approximately 600,000-plus HVAC installers and technicians. Where do they go to talk? And, what do they talk about?

Show them this is the best industry in the world; technicians today are looking for more.

Have you ever done something while on the job and shrugged it off, saying, “Oh well, they’ll never notice it.” What you think is a little thing that will go unnoticed can become a very big thing. It does matter.

I've been informing a 19-year-old son of a friend of mine that the HVACR industry could use his services. He's now decided to attend Ranken Technical College, and I'm sure he'll need encouragement along the way. Maybe Hilary Clinton is right: It does take a village to raise an HVACR technician.

In the column “Divide and Conquer,” April 30, there was a misleading calculation. Here are letters that discuss how to correctly perform the math.