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• n  a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together

• A stapler improperly used is a very dangerous device.
• Chicago-based Scott Wilson is a Renaissance man: the updated Swingline stapler, Nike's Presto Digital bracelet watch and even a line of modernist baby furniture, the Nest .
• When the gurus at venerable staplermaker Swingline woke up to a sharp business reality in 2001--market share had declined from 65% in the mid-1990s to 60% by the end of the decade .

• stapling machine

News & Articles

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• 8 Mobile Cloud Apps to Streamline Your Workflow
  Having trouble staying productive when you're not in the office? These apps improve your workflow by storing data in the cloud. Working in the cloud can feel like you're disconnected from reality. You don't have a desk or an office, so even those minor accouterments of business (say, paper clips and a stapler) are not available. Yet, the benefits of working in the cloud often outweigh this ...
  June 18, 2013 - Inc Magazine

Quotes

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• Tom Ridge in US Department of Homeland Security (press release)
  As the first secretary, Tom Ridge said, quote, "One of the greatest challenges of our first year was we had to not only get the department up and running operationally, meaning consolidate systems, integrate servers and get a stapler on every desk;...
• Anna Bligh in NEWS.com.au
  He sits at the same desk, he is using the same computer, he is using the same paperclips and the same stapler,Ms Bligh told the House. "I will happily admit that, given how hard he works, he probably has a little less hair. However, he is...
• Pat Martin in Winnipeg Free Press
  Did they feel they would just let it go? This wasn't a stapler or a box of Bic pens,Martin said. "Someone just stole the intellectual property of the government of Canada."