For many, there first experience with Coinstar would have been in your local grocery store where there was a coin counting machine sitting in customer service or right next to the bagged ice machine.

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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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And the Iraqis would be sitting there, with the machine guns firing, firing, firing, killing a lot of these guys but there would be more coming, and these machine guns would just heat up and jam.

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Baker shows me the sewing floor - there are four women sitting in front of specialized sewing machine.

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Sitting over my shoulder is an XP machine that has been happily running important apps for five or six years.

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