This signals another promising year of continued momentum within the U.S. manufacturing economy as companies continue to recognize the benefits of investing in new machine tool technology to improve productivity.

Machine tool orders for November continued to indicate a steady demand for new capital equipment as we pushed through the last quarter of 2005.

It’s too early to tell what happened here. That would be very speculative at this point, but certainly we will look into all aspects of it.

We’ve had a good year in 2005, and are seeing very positive signs that it will be strong [in ’06]. In talking to our members, I think there’s a great deal of pride and optimism...

We’re flattered that we were picked to display the boot, but it’s too bad it didn’t work.

If this fit someone, they would have to be 12 stories tall.