Similarly, Dell announced it will begin shipping a new line of Dimension PCs with factory-installed Cisco Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line modems for select U.S. West customers.

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For a look at the assembly line from the factory floor, The New York Times offers a panoramic view.

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When a Downing Street advisor points out that loneliness is probably more dangerous to our health in retirement than smoking, there are plenty who immediately assume that the advice is part of some dastardly statist plot to get pensioners out of their one-bed flats to sweat their final years away on a factory production line - see below for one example.

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The factory was still at less than capacity, with ample room for a new product line.

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In our city especially, there are great opportunities for manufacturing, and the time has come when the line is drawn very sharply between the stockholders of the factory and their employees.

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