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I'm interested in ______________________________________________________ Telephone _______________________________ Convenient time ___________________________ Fax Number ____________________________ E-mail: ___________________________________ Name ______________________________________________________________________________ Name of Business/Organization _______________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________________________________ City ____________________________________ State ______ Zip ___________________________ World Fence News contributing editor Read Jim Lucci's monthly column: The Human Link • Jim's Byline: PROFIT IS NOT A DIRTY WORD!™ Past IFIA Convention speaker and presenter of Eastern International Convention keynote addresses Jim Lucci COUPON knowledgeable hiring practices and solid training. February 1995 Here are some articles and news items that were being covered in the February 1995 issue of World Fence News, 20 years ago this month. • The cover photo for February showed a snow covered old cabin and a wrought iron fence in Madison Heights, Michigan. Photo courtesy of Ben Kurzawski. • CLFMI's staff attorney outlined the environmental outlook for 1995. • Wind deflection can have detri- mental effects on an automated slide gate operation, a report noted. • Phillip Perry talked about avoid- ing pitfalls when transferring a family business. • WFN contributing editor Jim Lucci noted that defining a statement of purpose is vital to business plan- ning. • Safe construction excavating was not as simple as it sounded. • WFN contributing editor Herb Borner discussed offering your cus- tomers a variety of tennis court fenc- ing options. • An article dealt with unex- plained payment reductions on con- struction jobs. • Mark Golman talked about how getting work is easy; getting paid is hard! • Building activity for 1994 was up substantially. • WFN presented a list of metric measurements for concrete work. • Reform legislation was expected to speed up bankruptcy proceedings. February 2000 Here are some articles and news items that were being covered in the February 2000 issue of World Fence News, 15 years ago this month. • The cover for February showed a couple of pictures from the Soap Box Derby facility, the Derby Downs, in Akron, Ohio. Maranatha Fence Co. of Akron performed an "all American fence job" when they took part in a major renovation of the facility. The project included installation of chain link fence and gates, wood fence, guardrail and a huge chain link mini-mesh backdrop on the grand- stands onto which were mounted the Derby Downs and All American Soap Box Derby logos. Photos were courtesy of Marana- tha Fence Co. • An association reported on amendments to Texas prompt pay law. • You can't avoid stress in your life, but you can control it. • Productive thinking: Measuring and quantifying work efficiency. • Lean and mean remains the pre- ferred way of running your business, a management expert suggested. • Examples of local building codes which govern fence construction. • A local association turned back efforts to revive contingent payment plan in New York, according to the American Subcontractors Association (ASA). • Scheduling installations and tracking inventory, by Herb Borner. • There is much importance to the act of employee background checking, noted Jim Lucci. February 2005 Here are some articles and items that were being covered in the Febru- ary 2005 issue of World Fence News, 10 years ago this month. • The cover for February showed a new fence for the Ronald McDon- ald House of Southern New Jersey in Camden, N.J. 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