One of the patients who qualified was Karl Domeny , a retired tool-and-die maker in Chicago.

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He was born the son of a tool-and-die maker in Franklin, Mass.

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His father, Frank, was a tool-and-die maker for Chrysler in Indianapolis.

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Honda says it's the first to offer this family-friendly tool, which it developed with heavy-duty vacuum maker Shop-Vac.

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Flavio Radice, the boss of Pietro Carnaghi, a tool maker in Busto Arsizio, north of Milan, says he and his designers regularly use their video-telephone link to pore over plans with customers for the huge vertical-milling machines his firm makes for turbine builders.

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