For too long the F.E.C. has spent much of its time creating loopholes for party machines and declining to punish even egregious violators.
Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.
But now I was barely conscious as my condition declined and a machine took over the job of oxygenating my blood.
The classic big-city machine declined in the two decades after World War II and has now all but disappeared from the landscape of American urban politics.
Dymo, which is now part of the Swedish office supply conglomerate Esselte, continues to sell embossed-tape labeling machines, though in declining numbers.
But with changing demographics, shifting suburban concerns and the decline of machine politics, the kind of control the Republicans once exercised in Nassau may be history.
If it is possible to contact voters without a party machine, the power of the machine will decline.
Mälzel viewed the competing machine and attempted to buy it, but the offer was declined and the duplicate machine toured for a number of years, never receiving the fame that Mälzel's machine did and eventually falling into obscurity.
Now the global economic machine has gone into reverse: output is declining and trade is tumbling at a faster pace.
The number of machines entering the park, which had been declining, promptly jumped to more than 700 a day from 490.
