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Tool time
By John Kurtz
From a 2006 letter to Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves, then co-presidents and co-chief operating officers of Viacom, from John Kurtz, executive vice president of the International Staple, Nail and Tool Association. “Nailed,” an episode of _CSI: Miami _that aired in the fall of 2005 on Viacom-owned CBS, portrayed attacks committed with a cordless power nailer and featured a scene in which a police investigator, using such a tool to fire nails at a target, dons a pair of safety glasses and says, “Yeah, like these things are going to stop a nail.”
Gentlemen:
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| SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Moonves, Leslie; Safety goggles; Safety measures; Freston, Tom | |
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