When crews prepared to drill the giant new cavity under Second Avenue, they first had to freeze the ground to about minus 20 degrees so as not to destabilize the buildings above as the boring machine cut through.
Earlier this year Granite set up an Internet site and bought a cheque-scanning machine to cut processing costs and help with marketing.
Its maker, Amersham Biosciences , a division of Amersham Plc. (nyse: AHM - news - people ) of the U.K., claims the IN Cell machine will cut years off the drug-discovery process.
At the beginning of each day, the machine has to cut grass outside the Welsh Musuem of Speed to prove it qualifies as a lawnmower.
When the doomsayers say Newt is believing in a Deus ex machine to dramatically cut carbon dioxide emissions, he might point out that those were the same folks who, only a very few years ago, told us we were running out of natural gas.
Equipped with a mobile processor that combines a chipset, a processor, and graphics smarts, Hoff demonstrated lush visuals on a machine that will have a cut-rate price.
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And if tipped over, the machine has been engineered to automatically cut out.
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Meanwhile, George W. Bush , a man who has spent his career in the most unpredictable industries imaginable, oil exploration and baseball, suddenly becomes the advocate of the cut-and-dried machine solution to a complex and subtle problem well beyond the tolerances of the machines in use.
Inside, in a space not much bigger than a three-car garage, was a single shaft-painting machine, a work station where clubs were cut to size and grips attached, and racks containing 40, 000 to 50, 000 shafts and 5, 000 clubheads.
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McCarver favors the 1976 Reds team, which won six fewer games but had a more dominant post-season, while sports historian Richard Crepeau of the University of Central Florida says take your pick--he agrees that the "Big Red Machine" teams of the 1970s are a cut above the rest.
Although the LG name has been a brand in most markets only for a decade or less, the company has come out with a few hits, including a 2006 steam washing machine, aimed at eco-minded consumers and designed to cut water and detergent usage.
Let your smart card and the pop machine duke it out. n Only the best of breed will cut it in the age of infinite and zero.
Compulsory audits, he suggested, would not eliminate all problems but could cut out on incidences of sensitive information "being sent to the wrong fax machine or dropped in the street or left on an unencrypted memory stick".
On the other hand, waiting will cut down on the length of time you'll hold bragging rights to the fastest machine in town.
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