| 1. | "
Lever Machines
An early precursor to electronic voting, lever machines require a
voter to pull selected levers assigned to candidates to indicate their
choice."
| Source: | Yang, Elizabeth M.,Gaines, Kristi. "Voting technology and the law: from chads to fads and somewhere in between" Social Education 68.6 Oct. 1 2004: 401-408
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| 2. | " Near the top of
the machine is a spout where all the ingredients are poured in. At the
machine's center is a bare 6-inch lever,..."
| Source: | McCarthy, Michael. "Icy treats, cool eats" Washington Times Aug. 20 1998: 4
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| 3. | " The 'English pork barrel' operates
when ministers within the government machine use their proximity to the
levers of power to ensure their seats get resources, or civil servants
anticipate their reactions."
| Source: | John, Peter,Ward, Hugh,Dowding, Keith. "The bidding game: competitive funding regimes and the political targeting of urban programme schemes" British Journal of Political Science 34.3 July 1 2004: 405-429
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| 4. | " Many different voting systems are used
in U.S. elections, but three of them--paper ballots, lever machines and
punch cards--are in the process of being phased out."
| Source: | Simpson, Michael. "Editor's notebook" Social Education 68.6 Oct. 1 2004: 373-374
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| 5. | " Lever machine use has
dropped as well, to 270 from 434."
| Source: | Seligson, Dan. "No sea change for November vote" Campaigns & Elections 25.9 Oct. 1 2004: 33-34
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| 6. | "... will still be using punchcard machines and 14
percent will be using lever machines, and we learned that these are not
necessarily poorer people," he said."
| Source: | . "Study: Outmoded Voting Machines More Likely to Be Found in Wealthier Counties" Ascribe Higher Education News Service Oct. 19 2004
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| 7. | "... on the deck.
* A safety shutoff that immediately stops the machine if you slip
or fall.
* Pressure-point control of speed and elevation, rather than
slide-lever controls."
| Source: | Brown, Edwin W. "Walking Indoors for Exercise" Medical Update 22.9 Mar. 1 1999: 5-6
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| 8. | " Although the
unit is claimed to be self-calibrating, the calibration was verified
routinely using known weights and lever arms to produce a known range of
specific torques against which the machine readings could be verified."
| Source: | YORK, JAMES L.,HIRSCH, JUDITH A.,PENDERGAST, DAVID R.,GLAVY, JOSEPH S. "Muscle Performance in Detoxified Alcoholics" Journal of Studies on Alcohol 60.3 May 1 1999: 413
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| 9. | " But so long as we
continue our perspective that the world is merely a machine and we need
only find the right levers..."
| Source: | Hartmann, Thom. "Have We Already Played the Game and Lost?" Tikkun 14.6 Nov. 1 1999: 21
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| 10. | "... in the public eye." You bet they don't, but
put it in the bank that those hired to pull the levers that make these
convention machines work are professionals at putting on a grand show."
| Source: | Ray, Diana. "Who Is Pulling the Levers?" Insight on the News 16.29 Aug. 7 2000: 14
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| 11. | " These machines compensate for a
muscle's changes in strength by utilizing cams or levers to vary
resistance, keeping it at a maximum level throughout the full range of
motion."
| Source: | Hanson, Sherry Ballou. "50 Tips to Increase Stamina" Vibrant Life 15.6 Nov. 1 1999: 10
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| 12. | "... their intellectual capital.
"It's really mind-boggling when you think about this
whole accounting machinery that ends up with a balance sheet that
explains less than one-sixth of a company's real value," says
Lev. "So we are talking..."
| Source: | BUDERI, ROBERT. "In Search of Innovation" Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.) 102.6 Nov. 1 1999: 42
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| 13. | " If rough stuff
is encountered, VehiCross can be shifted into 4WD-low with a simple move
of a lever."
| Source: | Spell, Tim. "VehiCross has `Mad Max' flair" Washington Times Mar. 19 1999: 6
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| 14. | " Like him, they have developed a style of nationalism that
promises to redress the balance, but in practice levers them into
absolute power through conspiracy and crime."
| Source: | Pryce-Jones, David. "Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey" Commentary 110.1 July 1 2000: 85
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| 15. | "... on the upright at the back.'
Pursuing the logic of this insight, Osenton discovered that, by
clever use of levers and balance, a man could lift a stone one hundred
times his body weight."
| Source: | Furtado, Peter. "Raising the Megalithic Roof" History Today 50.5 May 1 2000: 2
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| 16. | " Installation is as simple as lifting the ZIF (zero
insertion force) lever and replacing the old processor with a new one."
| Source: | HOGAN, MIKE. "Is Your PC Acting Its Age?" Entrepreneur 28.6 June 1 2000: 56
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| 17. | "
Four rats pressed a lever for food-pellet reinforcers delivered by
a simple VI schedule during 50-mm sessions."
| Source: | WEATHERLY, JEFFREY N.,STOUT, JASON E.,RUE, HANNA C.,MELVILLE, CAM L. "EFFECT OF UNSIGNALED DELAY TO REINFORCEMENT ON WITHIN-SESSION RESPONDING" Psychological Record 50.2 Mar. 22 2000: 355
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| 18. | " This
process replaced man by machine and reduced man to behaving like a
machine, to performing simple and repetitive tasks."
| Source: | Li, Huaizu,Li, Ling X. "Integrating Systems Concepts into Manufacturing Information Systems" Systems Research and Behavioral Science 17.2 Mar. 1 2000: 135
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| 19. | " Video titles include Habitats,
Weather and Climate, Trash and the Environment, The Solar System, Rocks
and Minerals, Seeds and Plants, Simple Machines, and Dinosaurs."
| Source: | CROISSANT, ANN B. "Video Learning Through the Lives of Children and the Eyes of Technology" Childhood Education 76.3 Mar. 22 2000: 184
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| 20. | " At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, engineer
Mark Tilden, who calls himself a "robobiologist," makes
insectlike machines with nervous systems containing just a few dozen
transistors and other simple components."
| Source: | Petit, Charles W. "A robot menagerie, from ants to androids" U.S. News & World Report 129.10 Sept. 11 2000: 86
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| 21. | " On his first night at the
Mississippi academy, state troopers refused his simple request for
access to a vending machine."
| Source: | . "Fighting Discrimination In Mississippi" Diabetes Forecast 53.9 Sept. 1 2000: 99
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| 22. | "
Background
The ability to provide services at a distance relies on a variety
of technologies from simple systems (e.g., telephone, audio and
videotapes) to more complex systems, (e.g., Internet, audio
conferencing, facsimile machines and real time video)."
| Source: | Riemer-Reiss, Marti. "Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at a Distance: Challenges, Strategies and Ethics to Consider" Journal of Rehabilitation 66.1 Jan. 1 2000: 11
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| 23. | " Making machine learning
approaches accessible to a wide audience is such a difficult balance
that, although I am tempted to criticize them, I sympathize with their
challenge."
| Source: | AHOUSE, JEREMY C. "BIOINFORMATICS--A MIDDLE WAY" BioScience 50.3 Mar. 1 2000: 264
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| 24. | "... 1970s-era Russian T-62 tanks, not the
modern T-72; potential lightweight replacements for the M-1 tank get
stuck in mud and can be penetrated by simple machine gun bullets.
"
| Source: | Bedard, Paul,Kaplan, David E.,Newman, Richard J. "Going backwards" U.S. News & World Report 128.9 Mar. 6 2000: 9
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| 25. | "
Presents projects that range from simple demonstrations of mathematical
problems to complex research projects Suggests resources that take
advantage of Internet search machines and Web sites."
| Source: | . "8 New Ways To Make Math Teaching--and Learning--MoreEnriching!" Teaching Children Mathematics 6.5 Jan. 1 2000: 286
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