Firing a mixture of balls from a specially-made bowling machine he found the white balls deviated from a straight path much more than the red ones.

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These vines will grow straight out of the ground, leaving enough room for a machine to come through the rows.

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In finance, standards can take years to define as working groups from banks, securities firms and depositories meet repeatedly to hash out what needs to be in a message and ways to make it machine-readable so the communication can be handled by computers with straight-through processing (STP) and not require any expensive, time-consuming and error-inducing human intervention.

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