He charges the joint venture for research and development, engineering, machine-building and other services.
Nor did he gain a top post until age 50, when he was named administrator of the First Ministry of Machine-building Industry.
Several departments emblematic of old-style central planning, such as coal and machine-building, have been subsumed under a new "super-ministry, " the State Economic and Trade Commission.
When the machine-building department at Bielefeld's University of Applied Sciences looked in danger of closing, industry drummed up interest among students to keep it open.
The coalition-building machine seemed to be running relatively smoothly.
Michael Ware, 37, accidently got into the arcade cabinet-building business when he designed an emulator-based machine for his wife, 35, as a Christmas present back in December 2002.
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Even after the departure of Duvalier, the military continued to harass and attack the radio station, to tear down transmitters and even to machine-gun the facade of the building.
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This young Australian entrepreneur is building the next human-machine interface, a headset that takes orders directly from the brain.
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Compaq's new machine will far outstrip the largest commercial supercomputer ever built, a 7.5 teraflop machine IBM announced it was building for privately-held NuTech Sciences almost exactly a month ago.
This notion was revived in the 1950s, when the building of a genuine chess-playing machine was seen by artificial-intelligence researchers as a stepping-stone towards a general theory of machine intelligence.
IBM, which dominates the annual list of the top 500 supercomputers, announced that it was building the machine in 1999 and, like the new Compaq-Celera collaboration, it will be ready by 2004.
"It's a lot of confidence-building, " said Mr. Durkin, who has skippered a machine for 28 years and also piloted one at the Salt Lake City Olympics.
With two piston-like windows on its eastern flank, this building looks a lot like a giant garment worker's sewing machine -- an appropriate image for a company such as Wacoal.
In the A plot, the nine-year-old half brothers Phineas and Ferb fill a summer day with some insanely ambitious project: making a building as high as the moon, a time machine, a roller-coaster.
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