Michelle Chapman

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Navy Commissions USS Cooperstown; Honors War Veteran Players
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A company like AFT Fasteners has the added capability to perform in-house plating and finishing, which can be helpful when producing kits for end users that vary in color.
No, I’m Not Kitting: The Advantages of Outsourcing to Fastener Distributors
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Colorado Rep. Brianna Titone before a signing ceremony for the state's 'right to repair' law, Denver, April 25, 2023.
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A mural is displayed on the wall outside the Lordstown Motors plant, June 22, 2021 in Lordstown, Ohio.
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Lordstown Warns It May Fail as Foxconn Gets Jumpy
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An Exxon gas station in Upper Darby, Pa., Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Exxon Mobil reports their earnings on Friday, April 28, 2023.
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This Oct. 18, 2019, photo shows a Tesla logo in Salt Lake City.
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A Kia which was damaged after being stolen is seen at an auto repair shop in Milwaukee on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.
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A Tesla electric vehicle emblem is affixed to a passenger vehicle Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, in Boston.
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A Rivian logo is shown on one of the company's electric pickup trucks, Dec. 15, 2021, in Atlanta.
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Rivian, FedEx Shed Jobs
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The FTX logo appears on home plate umpire Jansen Visconti's jacket at a baseball game with the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Minneapolis.
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This April 26, 2018, file photo, shows the Hasbro logo in New York.
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An Uber sign is displayed inside a car in Palatine, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022.
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A Tyson food product is seen in Montpelier, Vt., on Nov. 18, 2011.
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In this May 29, 2014, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, introduces the SpaceX Dragon V2 spaceship at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif.
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A Walmart sign displayed on the facade of a store in Hialeah Gardens, Fla., on June 1, 2017. Walmart is adding four new fulfillment centers to its existing capacity, a move that will bring more than 4,000 jobs and make next- or two-day shipping available to more Americans.
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Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington. Musk has strengthened the equity stake of his offer to buy Twitter with commitments of more than $7 billion from a range of investors, including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. In a regulatory filing, Twitter Inc. also disclosed that Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud has pledged 35 million Twitter shares.
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