Then he went into the hot-rod business full time.
The Heico Companies, a manufacturer controlled by Michael Heisley, has agreed to buy an insolvent Canadian steelmaker, Ivaco Inc., for 375 million Canadian dollars ($285 million) to expand its wire and steel-rods businesses and add fasteners.
I also run a rod repair business and I constantly see factory rods that have "reel-seats" falling off or guides that get twisted.
The red-faced gangster, packing heat, approaches.A rod's blunt business end.
But since bear-hugging President Obama on Sunday, Van Duzer has become a national lightning rod for small business politics, the object of a Yelp tug-of-war... and a sudden media darling.
Not surprisingly Mr. Liveris has become a lightning rod among economists and business leaders, particularly those in the oil and gas drilling business, who say he is espousing protectionism merely to promote the interests of his own company.
(Reuters Federal Mogull announced on Monday that it planned to sell its connecting rod and camshaft manufacturing business to the Illinois-based JD Norman Industries Inc.
Mr. Zucker, who was a lightning rod in the television business long before he became chief executive of NBC Universal in 2007, now finds himself at the center of one of the biggest deals in media — the $30 billion plan to shift control of the company from General Electric to Comcast.
"These DreamWorks guys are the A-Rods of the movie business," said Harold L. Vogel, an independent media analyst.
UESU, he explains, was less a business than "a rod with which to catch a golden fish in the murky water of the post-Soviet economy".
