Waisman began his career with a small business that sold machinery for making women's clothes, and continued with it for decades.

He started off in a machine shop, got involved with a mail-order business that sold machinery and then became a real estate broker.

The groundwork was laid in the 1970's when equipment vendors began selling machinery that could be operated with electronic instructions.

And there's no law against selling machinery.

Mansfield made his fortune selling machinery left over from the Falklands war.

I can sell my premises and machinery and put my feet up.

Mr. Gipe's commercial work is shooting covers for magazines that sell agricultural machinery.

It stands to reason that a firm would find difficulty selling advanced microelectronic machinery to a culture with a primitive agriculturally-based economy.

Other concerns listed by Stern ranged from companies that supplied air conditioning to those that sold machinery or tools.

The incoming administration's proposals would lower the tax on capital gains, which are the profits made from selling stocks, real estate, machinery and other assets.