The just-completed interleague series between the Yankees and Reds in Cincinnati probably had some people reflecting on the 1976 World Series, when the Bombers were swept out in four straight by the Big Red Machine of Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Johnny Bench.

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He began to crawl straight toward an enemy bunker, its machine guns blazing.

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These vines will grow straight out of the ground, leaving enough room for a machine to come through the rows.

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Firing a mixture of balls from a specially-made bowling machine he found the white balls deviated from a straight path much more than the red ones.

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In finance, standards can take years to define as working groups from banks, securities firms and depositories meet repeatedly to hash out what needs to be in a message and ways to make it machine-readable so the communication can be handled by computers with straight-through processing (STP) and not require any expensive, time-consuming and error-inducing human intervention.

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