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** Even though employees at the Peer Bearing Co. no longer work for the Spungen family that recently sold the Waukegan-based ball bearings maker, they still received a turkey each this Thanksgiving in keeping with tradition. But even better was the gift that came in mid-September, when the Spungens threw a party to celebrate the company’s acquisition by a Swedish company. They gave away $6.6 million in year-end bonuses to Peer’s 230 employees… AP **