Because credit card companies have always charged a swipe fee, one that was paid by retailers per transaction to cover the cost of equipment and processing.

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Some have only shown traces, which may be the result of meat processing plants not properly cleaning equipment.

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The money from the investment was to install new equipment and improve technology at the facility, which is the largest pig processing plant on the island of Ireland.

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Bank sorting equipment ejected the demagnified check for slower manual processing, gaining the boys extra days of float.

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Katrina crushed Mars with 90-foot waves that toppled the drilling equipment stationed on deck and damaged vital pumping and processing gear.

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During the mid 1990s, farmers and food processing firms invested heavily in new equipment to comply with EU standards ahead of membership and so have early access to the western European market.

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The Treasury blamed this delay on an unprecedented volume of participation by small investors, on failure of Congress to act in a timely fashion on the debt ceiling legislation in April, and on an unanticipated failure of word processing equipment used to prepare check schedules.

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The West could help in supplying seeds for new agricultural crops and equipment for food processing.

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On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.

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