Car parts, machine tools and Harley-Davidson motorcycles are only a few of its products.

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Late last year he brought in two veteran Texas Instruments managers to focus efforts on nearer-term products, such as microelectronic machine parts maybe several thousand nanometers across, to bring in some research money.

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In the suit, O'Bannon and his supporters argue that athletes are crucial parts of a college-sports machine that is worth billions annually and that barring them from reaping some of those revenues violates the Sherman Antitrust Act by artificially fixing prices.

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On his instructions, Steinway's chief technician shaved the piano's hammers so they would be even lighter, and rearranged some parts so that a single note could be repeated in an almost machine-gun-like fashion.

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In addition, the arm has an in-built laser pointer that can show exactly where on a machine work should start or where parts should be placed.

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This sudden surge of requests, which were cancellations for a large batch of orders that the machine had never actually sent out, acted like a denial-of-service attack on some parts of the New York Stock Exchange.

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