Its telecoms and chemicals businesses have been sold, and it will probably dispose of its stakes in Hochtief, a construction company, and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, a printing-machine manufacturer, in the next few years.

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By shooting with a moving camera and printing every third frame, he achieves a staccato effect as if the camera were a machine gun.

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In the print-shop case, the Westminster police and the U.S. Customs Service arrested 15 men and seized an industrial printing press, a shrink-wrap machine and crate upon crate of illegitimate Windows 95 documentation.

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