Can we say that a high-tech process like 3D printing, or laser cutting, or laser sintering, or pick any new tech, is not manufacturing for a new age?

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Harvesters pick the seaweed on beaches, cutting the plants with a short-bladed knife to allow them to regrow.

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The key to finding the best opportunities is choosing countries where central banks are cutting rates just as economic growth is beginning to pick up.

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It added that along with a pick-up in demand for international and domestic travel, cost-cutting measures were likely to help boost profit.

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Nonetheless, those who are advocating cutting government spending at the federal, state and local levels should be encouraged by the pick-up in the job market since the first of the year.

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That said, General Motors and Chrysler have made huge cost-cutting strides in recent years, and could be poised to make serious profits if car sales pick up and the stock market strengthens enough to boost their pension funds.

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