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...contorting their wrists inward. Double-jointedness can also be a risk factor. Smokers may have fewer injuries, thanks to their periodic breaks away from the terminal to satisfy nicotine cravings. And what goes on outside the office can be just as damaging as what happens in it. Observes Katy Keller, a physical therapist at the Miller Institute: "Injured people go home and talk on the telephone, stir the supper and carry the baby all at the same time. All this does is add to the physical stress of the workday...
...saves a lot of useless time that you spend wandering around the stacks," said Keller Norris...
Otisca is not entirely a victim of others' shortsightedness and bad timing. Customers, investors and board members acknowledge that the company has made mistakes; its marketing has been less than sophisticated, and Smith and Keller probably should have moved the company closer to the mineheads and the factories likely to buy their fuel. Some board members questioned Smith's ability to run a corporation larger than an extended machine shop. "He thinks there's only one way to do things," says board member Speicher, "and that's his way." For a time, Otisca employed a marketing specialist, but to little...
...that Otisca was born at the wrong time in the wrong place. Other technologies and energy sources may leapfrog over the concept of a precleaned coal slurry. In that case, the Jamesville plant, Doug Keller and Clay Smith will be a brief, forgotten chapter in American industrial and environmental history. That would not be atypical. Nine out of 10 inventors never see a penny from their ideas. Far fewer get to be Henry Fords or Thomas Watsons...
Smith's engine is already built. He and Keller just need someone to buy it and put it to use. That still just might happen someday, though Otisca's 20- year record does not support such optimism. But as Doug Keller says, "If you're not optimistic, you're out of the game...