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On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:10:03 GMT, jeff
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Yea, they are spendy, about $250-350k, which is why a good share of them
are sold overseas. China, Korea, Singapore, Japan. I'm of two minds on
that: Having grown up in the machine tool business, I am happy to see
the USA can still export machine tools, but each one shipped overseas is
a couple of jobs exported as well.


There goes the cheap labor argument out the door again.
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