He did not have a vision before his Xerox visit, and his idea after was simply to make and market the machine he saw come together in his mind.

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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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Mr Jobs saw potential in Wozniak's homemade machine and they started Apple Computer Inc in Jobs' parents garage in 1976.

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"I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I saw a way to increase output of the machine by about 50%, " he says.

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Influential people within the party machine had been dismayed by what they saw as Mr Duncan Smith's pettiness and insecurity.

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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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Len Ainsworth gained a solid foothold in Las Vegas for his small betting-machine company, Ainsworth Game Technology, and saw its stock quadruple over the past year.

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In the cold war America saw Bhumibol as a staunch ally and helped finance his image-making machine.

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One time, my mother was emptying out a load of laundry into the washing machine, and she heard this strange noise and looked and saw that my father had taken the clarinet apart piece by piece and hid it in the dirty laundry.

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This past weekend, I saw a story with a photo of an elderly woman sitting at a sewing machine working on prom dresses and the article went on to say that she has to work in order to supplement her Social Security.

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