What followed was a "fake" investigation designed "to protect the money machine known as 'Desperate Housewives, ' " Baute said.

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They also want to protect a moneymaking machine.

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The first small machine most of us knew was here to protect us from a specific kind of accident.

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They have devoted their lives and sacrificed the lives of the people under them to protect the property and freedom of those citizens and feel compelled to maintain the military machine that they drive.

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As a heavy machine gunner, Monsoor had to stay behind the point man on foot patrols and protect the unit from attacks.

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It is a wind machine he first saw in California seven years ago which he thought might just be able to protect his apple crop back home from frost.

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