Bigger tax breaks should go to high-tech manufacturers who create the jobs of the future.

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Section 1502 is based on the recognition that companies from around the world, including in the United States, buy minerals from the DRC and use them to produce high-tech components that go into computers, mobile phones and other devices.

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For a high-powered woman on the go, chic tech gifts go a long way this winter.

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Think small train compartment with flat screen TVs and iPod docks for high-tech travel on the go.

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Also vulnerable are companies heavily dependent on expensive new high-tech programs, which now go under the rubric of Future Combat Systems.

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More money went into the stock market during the last quarter of 1999 and first quarter of 2000, when now we know there was this Internet bubble, more money went in at that time than ever before and it didn't go into value stocks, it went into these high-tech funds.

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But Nasdaq has been hard hit by the bursting of the high-tech bubble, seeing some of its companies go out of business and others fail to meet its listing requirements.

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