The documents also detail Schlumberger staff modifying country codes to avoid references to Iran and Sudan, as well as arranging equipment "swaps" to facilitate US-made equipment getting to sites in Iran and Sudan, by virtue of sending new equipment to permitted countries (like Jordan), who didn't need it, so as to allow their second-hand machinery to be sent on to the barred nations.
The head of the second-hand machinery company told me that he had heard that on Fridays at Marshall's, the company car used to be sent down to Melton Mowbray to bring back an authentic pork pie for the directors' lunch.
As a simple example, a fully automated farm would, in theory, provide food at a far cheaper cost than one staffed with human farm hands, machinery operators, administrative staff, distributions operatives and security guards.
The Middle Kingdom's insatiable appetite for second-hand machinery means that small U.S. businesses can make a quick buck by selling old equipment there.
That will leave only the sun and air untouched by the human hand, or machinery, before reaching their plants.
On the other hand, because machinery is cheaper, many companies replace some workers with machines, or hire fewer workers, because the machines can do the work at lower cost.
Saffron, the dried orange-red flower stigmas of the fall-blooming Crocus sativus, must be harvested by hand because machinery would damage the leaves, which are needed to produce food for the plant.
You will judge what analogy there is between a lamp burning between two columns of water & supplied with air by a bellows worked by hand or machinery; & a simple close lantern supplied with air by canals through which explosions cannot pass.
The trapezoidal bunds were developed by Finkel (1985)in Turkana, Kenya, and can be built by hand or machinery.
It is an impressive piece of hand-built machinery, but that's not how Mr. Barry sees the newest creation in his Falcon Ten series.
