"If we're going to make these vehicles successful, especially after government incentives go away, we're going to have make them affordable, " said company spokesman John Hanson.

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After company founder John Hanson died in 1996, Winnebago shed ancillary businesses such as a European commercial distribution division and began to concentrate on one thing: building big honkin' motor homes.

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John Hanson is one rancher who received help.

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It wasn't anybody's idea of a dream job when John Nils Hanson, a 59-year-old nuclear engineer from MIT, was named chief executive of Milwaukee-based Harnischfeger, by far the world's largest mining-machine maker.

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It wasn't anybody's idea of a dream job when John Nils Hanson, a 59-year-old nuclear engineer from MIT, was named the CEO of Harnischfeger, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by far the world's largest mining-machine maker.

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Over at the American Enteprise Institute, John Makin and Daniel Hanson suggest not to worry too much about the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio, then turn around and warn against letting the sequester take effect because, ironically, it would raise the debt-to-GDP ratio by slowing the economy.

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