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The machine can still contain foreign parts, but 9to5 Mac points out that the requirements for using that label are still a little rigorous.

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Although sugar-cane harvesting and grape-growing could now be done largely by machine, many farmers find it cheaper to hire foreign hands for the season.

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Foreign entities with knowledge of the multi-axis simultaneous control machine tool industry view the U.S. export control policies and requirements as an additional burden to consider when dealing with U.S. multi-axis machine tool manufactures.

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We have wonderful friends and neighbors and a million dollar view from the porch, a real kitchen, a washing machine, a lawn mower stuff that is foreign to city dwellers.

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Introduced to tackle machine theft, it has helped turn Komatsu into the biggest foreign supplier of excavators and dump trucks to China's booming construction and mining companies.

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Companies making five-axis machine tools in the United States take a lot longer to build them than foreign rivals.

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In moments of hopeful fantasy, they imagine this wonderful machine serving Europe as the strong arm of a perfectly co-ordinated common foreign and security policy.

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