Kelly happens to be a rather dedicated Breitling watch lover, and has a long history with precision tools and machines.

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Germany, which supplied China with the high-precision machine tools needed to support its growth, saw its exports boom.

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Two years ago, Adrian Allen, group sales director of Technicut, which makes precision-cutting machine tools, decided to try to sell some machines to Boeing.

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In reality, no one has ever been able to drop an anti-apple and watch it fall down (or up), and the antimatter produced in particle colliders is so energetic that it is hard to examine with the tools of precision physics.

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Sales of high-precision five-axis machine tools are declining.

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Five-axis tools are used for the production of precision components in the aerospace industry, in making gas and diesel engines, automobile parts, and throughout the medical, textile, oil, glass, heavy industrial equipment and tool industries.

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