In essence, these guys use a specialized laser cutting process that can etch out anything your brain can muster -- from band logos to company mantras.
In addition, the report notes that the original rough stone from which The Vivid Yellow was cut must have possessed an extraordinary intensity and thus required no modified faceting in the cutting process to help bring out the color.
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Short-cutting this process through a government bailout is dangerous.
Peugeot is in the process of cutting 8, 000 jobs and closing a factory to stem losses.
Under South African law, companies must hold a 60-day consultation process before cutting a large number of jobs.
The next logical step is to automate the physical process of cutting the diamond, and Dr Holden seems to have found the ideal partner.
Just look at what Intel has done to Advanced Micro Devices over the past 12 months: Thanks to a salvo of new processor designs--and a cutting-edge manufacturing process--Intel has grabbed 76.3% of the market for the "x86" processors that power most of the world's computers in the final quarter of last year, up from 74.4% during the year-ago period, according to Mercury Research.
Just look at what Intel has done to Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) over the past 12 months: Thanks to a salvo of new processor designs--and a cutting-edge manufacturing process--Intel has grabbed 76.3% of the market for the "x86" processors that power most of the world's computers in the final quarter of last year, up from 74.4% during the year-ago period, according to Mercury Research.
Man-made diamonds have traditionally been used for manufacturing process such as cutting and polishing tools.
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Other officials have likened it to a surgical process, cleanly cutting out the carmakers' creditors.
But because Facebook's mobile apps hadn't been cutting edge and the interview process was choppy, "we lost candidates, " Mr. Ondrejka said.
In the most extreme instances, some households have canceled their cable packages entirely a process known as "cutting the cord" and relied on a lower-cost alternatives such as Netflix or another service such as Hulu.
We're cutting down the time it takes to get a patent approved by cutting out unnecessary paperwork and modernizing the process.
He said the government had so far helped thousands of people to keep their jobs and homes, but cutting back now would threaten the whole process of recovery.
Wells Fargo, for example, recently announced it would shut down its independent lending offices and merge that business back into its branch operations, cutting 3, 800 jobs in the process.
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Mr Sinha says he is cutting red tape and speeding up the approval process.
In creating the IPAB, the president and Democrats in Congress wanted to take difficult decisions about cutting spending on Medicare out of the legislative process.
There is no reason, given what we know about what the elements of the various proposals are in terms of reducing the deficit and cutting spending in the fiscal year 2011 funding process that we cannot reach a compromise.
In the process the company has been aggressively pushing cutting-edge phones.
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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It would oblige Argentina to continue trying to adjust its real exchange rate by deflation (cutting nominal wages and prices in nominal terms), a process which has already forced the collapse of many businesses.
There had been some "real progress", he said, with local authorities cutting adoption delays and helping to redesign a faster but thorough process for assessing would-be adopters, but the statistics showed the "magnitude of the challenge".
This is a surmountable obstacle: Cutting and sewing are the last steps in the apparel-manufacturing process.
He believes that combining his laser-cutting with Dr Holden's software, and automating the whole process, could both reduce waste dramatically and cut the turnaround time from months to days.
This exercise in mindless cutting is, more than anything, a plea for a serious budget process.
Instead, federal prosecutors and lawmakers have focused on cutting off online poker companies from the financial system by going after the outfits that process their financial transactions.
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Process improvement and increasing efficient productivity should never be done at the cost of cutting corners.
In the process, it could lead to better at-home care for seniors, cutting health care costs.
Instead of relying on the linear process of story-telling in print (which can leave much on the cutting-room floor), we created a 360-degree online view of Lynn Tilton and her firm, Patriarch Partners.
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