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Tips For Negotiating A Better Deal EQUIPMENT LEASING In his book Negotiating Business Equipment Leases, Richard M. Contino, an attorney and business financial adviser in Rye, N.Y., offers these tips for enhancing your bargaining position. - Use competitive bidding. Create an environment in which the lessor must compete for your business, even when the transaction amount is small. ... read more>>   The Application Fighter Jet Has Unexpectedly Quit Forget sophisticated hardware malware -- poor wiring might be equally problematic for military computers WHILE the Pentagon and allies of the US worry that rogue states might insert sophisticated "kill switches" inside critical microchips, the military's computer hardware continues to be vulnerable to a far more mundane form of attack: dubious chi ... read more>> Sensor Picks Up Elusive Explosive A handheld device that sniffs out the same powerful explosive employed by the would-be shoe bomber may be coming soon to an airport near you. Chemists have developed a sensor that reacts to minute amounts of TATP, an explosive favored by terrorists because it is easy to make and difficult to detect. The new sensor consists of a postage stamp-sized ... read more>>   Power of One In 1999 I watched a disaster unfold on the evening news. As aid workers threw loaves of bread on the ground and people scrambled after them, I asked my wife, "Why can't they hand the bread to those people? They've lost everything. Why should they lose their self-respect too?" It was as if someone hit me over the head with a cricket bat. I got out a ... read more>>

New Repossed Equipment Articles this edition... Leasing Goes Digital Online leasing has the potential to grab 10% or more of the business leasing market-including your business. When applying for a lease online, be sure to shop around for good rates. Each site works with different approval profiles, so it's worth trying several sites. ACCESSLEASE.COM This online broker, which used to be offline Access Capital, ha ... read more>> Plan For The Machinery You Are Going To Need Any farmer in the happy position of being able to regularly buy new kit will be familiar with the pleasure and the pain of machinery investment. The pleasurable bit is knowing that you have a faster, cleverer and altogether better machine than the old clunker you've replaced. The pain -- if there is any -- is in the price-tag and the look of mild ... read more>> Increasing Intelligence The U.S. Army is making strides in improving its intelligence-collection capability as anti-insurgency efforts intensify in Afghanistan. Two key programs are moving forward: The Enhanced Medium-Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (Emarss), optimized for real-time intelligence, and the Constant Hawk, a forensic intelligence-collector op ... read more>> Heavy Lifting Development strategies are crystallizing for a new heavy-lift helicopter with the European Defense Agency release of a request for information and NATO working on turning an alliance staff target for such a rotorcraft into an actual requirement. One key design feature involves carrying a load internally, rather than using sling loads. Aarne Kreuzi ... read more>> Brosious Family Brings Equipment Auctions To The Web The father-and-son team of Ham Brosious and Matt Brosious--pioneers in the hard-scrabble game of buying, selling, renting, and auctioning pro audio equipment--has found a lucrative revenue stream in cyberspace. Their World Wide Web site, digibid.com, is an online division of Hamilton Brosious Associates (HBA), which for some 20 years has been in ... read more>> Big-Boom Lift To Tower Over Megashow in Las Vegas JLG Industries Inc. will display a new 150-ft-tall boom lift at CONEXPOCON/AGG 2011, the biggest construction event of the year, held on March 22-26 in Las Vegas. The lift replaces an older model that was cumbersome to deploy on jobs needing high-reach access. Model 1500SJ is the tallest self-propelled aerial work platform that can be trailered wi ... read more>>