During his spree he was said to have thrown himself a $ 75, 000 birthday party and complained about having to count $ 340, 000 by hand after his currency-counting machine broke.
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Just one small example : When the Seattle Center's Zamboni ice machine broke down a while back, no spare parts were available, so the requisition had to go through the city's purchasing labyrinth.
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The opening and cleaning machines broke the bales down and prepared the cotton into'lap'form which was taken to the third and fourth floor carding rooms, housing three rows of carding engines, over 130.
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The local mayor ordered the house to be demolished, but the contractors machines broke down before they could get started, so the doors and windows were bricked-up, with the exception of the boy's bedroom.
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And when machines broke down at another polling place, voters got paper ballots with all the candidates on one side and the bond proposal on the back, with no instructions to turn the paper over.
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Britain's 28, 000 lottery ticket machines broke down for a while Saturday in a betting frenzy prompted by a record jackpot estimated at 42 . 1 million pounds ( dlrs 65 . 3 million ).
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The siege machines broke holes into the walls of Acre, but every new breach led to an attack from Saladin s army, giving the garrison of Acre an opportunity to repair the damage while the Christians were distracted.
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The most notable case was that relating to the Gretley coal mine disaster, near Newcastle, where four men were killed when their mining machine broke into the flooded workings of an old coalmine, abandoned over 80 years earlier.
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Though the Cameras weren't made anymore, the various companies that owned the VM line over the years continued to manufacture and sell the blank reel mounts until the machine broke and Fischer Price decided not to fix it.
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At 45 Wall Street, a luxury apartment building that serves as a polling place for most Wall Street residents, chaos reigned for a time, because the poll workers were unfamiliar with their tasks and one of the two machines broke down.
