He bought his daughter a fifty-cent plastic prize from a gumball-type machine.

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"It is in much the same way as you book a movie ticket by phone or online these days using your credit card and then when you get there you access your ticket through an ATM-type machine, " said Will, who is chairman of the World Cup ticketing sub-committee.

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The other type would be network-based intrusion-detectors such as a machine running Marcus J.

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But other big pistons in the economic machine--institutional stock traders--are now basing more decisions on a different type of Wal-Mart effect.

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When you pop in a title the machine scans it for information and creates an on-screen catalog, searchable by the artist, title and type of disc.

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