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As Bonds chases record, two manufacturers hope he'll be swinging ...

TEMPE, Ariz. - Barry Bonds isn't considered a darling in the world of corporate marketing, but bat manufacturers are scrambling to put their product in his hands.

Who wouldn't want to supply the bat used to break the all-time home run record?

The winner appears to be a Japanese company, SSK, which provided Bonds a dozen black-and-gold lacquered maple bats made to the slugger's exact specifications. Bonds is using the bats this spring - he just ordered 36 more - and considers them nearly identical to the Sam Bats he has faithfully swung since 1999.

"They did it perfect," said Bonds, who swung an SSK in Wednesday's exhibition against the Los Angeles Angels.

Bonds began auditioning for a new bat supplier because of an inconvenient truth.

Mother Nature, in tandem with financial issues, has put Ottawa-based Sam Bats manufacturer Sam Holman months behind in filling his 2,000 major league orders.

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Insurer Rx: Kind doctors

An upstart Iowa-based medical malpractice insurer is quizzing physicians on their bedside manners in hopes that a little kindness will create a fewer legal problems for its policyholders.

When United Medical Liability Insurance Co. began business mid-2005, President and Chief Executive James Krist, 48, said that he wanted to develop a malpractice carrier that is attuned to the physicians in Iowa. He didn't want a company that was issuing policies to Iowa physicians the same way it might to caregivers in Florida or California.

"We don't think there's a lot of bad medicine in this state," Krist said. "We have good physicians. And good results."

Building an insurer from the ground up gave United Medical a fresh chance to look at the way risks might be reduced.

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Electric Cars and Hollywood Stars: Automotive Industry Education ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Joseph Kenny, president of the Scottsdale-based Automotive Industry Education Foundation, joined celebrities Ed Begley Jr. and his wife Rachelle Carson, actress Daryl Hannah, Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, and more than 400 supporters, investors and environmentalists who gathered at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles this past week for the unveiling and induction of the only five-passenger, all-electric, freeway-speed sport utility truck (SUT) in America.

Alan Algan, Chairman and CEO of the Automotive Industry Education Foundation, said, "We are very excited to support the efforts of Phoenix Motorcars as they bring this important vehicle to the marketplace and revolutionize fleet and consumer transportation.

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In our view: Employees should hand over cards

Cherokee County Attorney Michael Goodrich, in January, was asked by a former county employee to look into the use of the county credit cards by the Sheriff's Department. In our view: Employees should hand over cards Cherokee County Attorney Michael Goodrich, in January, was asked by a former county employee to look into the use of the county credit cards by the Sheriff's Department.

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