The new techniques might not prove practical for computer control, however, because they require multimillion-dollar machines.

The company manufactures only a handful of the multimillion-dollar machines each year.

The first thing companies cut was their purchases of multimillion-dollar machines.

In 1969, Wilson was called to justify the multimillion-dollar machine to the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.

Since introducing the Cray 1 in 1976, Cray has been the superstar of supercomputers, the multimillion-dollar machines that are the fastest calculating devices known to man.

Conventional attempts to attain fusion rely on multimillion-dollar machines working at enormous temperatures.

Early yesterday the company told analysts that it expected to ship "more than 50" of the multimillion-dollar machines in the first quarter of 1991.

The many thankless jobs that managers perform grease the multimillion-dollar machine that is Division I basketball.

There was a noise of gears grinding and stripping, and with a backfire that gouted gray smoke the multimillion-dollar machine shuddered and stopped.