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From a
corporate image brochure...
Within our
plant, a careful choreography of parts, people and machines working
together with twenty-first century precision achieves close
tolerance, high quality helical gears. We have an array of
state-of-the-art CNC equipment along with a combination of highly
automated and semi-automated robotics. We offer dedicated
manufacturing lines and cells to handle up to your largest volume
production runs.
From a trade ad for a bus
manufacturing company...
“The
experience of the rider is everything …”
The first thing you notice when you enter the vehicle is the soft
lighting and peaceful feeling of the neutral coloring. The acoustic
ceiling is just the right height to make you comfortable. As you sit
down, feel the embrace of an automotive-style high back seat. Now,
look out the window and enjoy a roadway to sky view through the
panoramic windows. Turn around and look out the exclusive
back window. Is that your connecting vehicle behind us?
From a press release for a
machinery manufacturing company...
The heart of
the new plant will be a slitting line that will handle master
coils weighing up to 35 metric tons in sizes up to 1600 mm wide and
4.00 mm thick. The line will operate with a loop and will process
stainless steel at a rate of up to 200 mpm. A railroad line has been
brought into the plant to accommodate delivery of the large master
coils.
Thoughts...
Do you feel
your thoughts? See them? Hear them? The rushing of the current, the
splashing of water against rock. Do you smell your thoughts like the
warm aroma of fern on a hot day in June? Your thoughts define you.
They are your destiny.
From the
short fiction "The Cross"...
She ran into
the woods weeping under a tree, providing moisture for mushroom
kings to grow. She was frightened, nervous. What should she do? She
wouldn't marry him this way. How could she? She was tugging at her
necklace becoming more and more frightened. More and more nervous.
Then the necklace broke, the cross was gone. She gasped. It was his
cross. He had given it to her as a symbol and pledge of their love.
He had their initials engraved on the back. Now it was gone.
Foolishly she had thrown it away. Silently, with great remorse, she
went back from whence she had come.
Wisdom
Her graying
blonde hair serves as a crown of wisdom where once gold served her
crown of glory. Her once beauty replaced with a puffiness of face.
Fine wrinkling surrounds her eyes, reflecting a character that runs
deep like a river. Her face, a long, slightly over-stuffed oval,
suits her. Here blue eyes pierce to your heart, but do so with a
rare gentleness, not a weak gentility, but of kindness born of
strength from deep within. The red lips her only concession to make
up.
Shameless Self-Serving
Copy...
Jump up! Sales don’t crash
through your window and shout, “Halleluiah I’m here!” How are you
going to get those pesky leads your competition keeps bragging
about? Boring copy isn’t going to get it anymore, my friend. You’ve
got to grab them where they don’t want to be grabbed and move in
about two centimeters from somebody’s nose and POW! you’ve got their
attention.
Great, they’re ready to
listen. Do you have anything to say? Of course you do. Paul Lloyd
put a great brochure together for you. He writes your newsletter and
web content. That CD-Rom you’re pulling out of your pocket with that
oh-so-relaxed pose you put on for clients – yeah, Paul wrote that
too. And produced it. You did call Paul, didn’t you? Like I told you
to? Oh bother, there goes another sale. Well, pick up the phone
right now and call Paul. He’ll take it from there. Yeah, you can
check out his website if you want to, just click on the links above and go. Don’t forget to call Paul when you’re done. Number’s
630-393-6516.
Paul's Food
for Thought...
"It’s what you do around the
edges and margins of life that makes the difference between success
and failure."
"To move a mountain, speak boldly. Mountains do not hear timid
voices."
"Go in peace, but march in victory."
"Stride like Colossus through the streets of opportunity."
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