The NBA work stoppage delayed the start of the professional basketball league's regular season by about two months, cutting the combined number of preseason and regular season games to six from 40 a year earlier.

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In 2007, the combined amount of CNC metal-cutting and forming tools produced in China was 126, 268, more than double the amount produced in 2005.

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Steinheimer believes that the decline of the studios' power, combined with Taylor's colourful personal life, created a new, more cutting, and less sycophantic style of mainstream media coverage of celebrities - moving towards today's tabloid press.

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Still, the result is likely to be an entertaining romp with cutting-edge computer graphics and the superb animation that comes from the combined effort of 700 technicians and artists.

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