Phase II includes cutting costs by removing an entire layer of operations management, which will see the bank shedding thousands of lower-level jobs.

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Essentially, they isolated a rectangular column from the surrounding snowpack and used a snow saw to start an artificial fracture by cutting through the weak underlying frost layer, then watched what happened.

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Instead of bashing, bending and cutting material the way it always has been, 3D printers build things by depositing material, layer by layer.

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