For example, if your business involves putting together packets of information for clients, maybe you have one station specifically for printing, and another that has all the hole punches, staplers, folders, and other assembly materials, and still a third station for preparing outgoing mail.

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It is quite possible that technologies being developed for other purposes (such as lasers, which are useful for all sorts of advanced materials processing) will make the process cheaper and easier still.

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Sales of new books account for little more than half of all textbook revenue, with the remainder split between used books and other course materials.

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Another potential sticking-point this time is that North Korea is supposed to discuss a plausible list of all other nuclear facilities and materials it has, including any related to uranium, in preparation for declaring and then getting rid of them.

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