New digital printers make short work of forty-foot billboards, he said, producing one in under an hour.

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Silicon-based life forms now make short work of tasks that once took us many man hours to accomplish.

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Surely, the tremendous GDP growth created by such spending would make short work of the so-called Great Recession.

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Previous short term, multi-day sell-offs in early October and early September were also excellent opportunities for traders to make quick work of short term oversold extremes.

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"It's not an easy thing to make work in such a short space of time, but it has a wide application and it's exactly what we talked about, " he said.

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While these increases were substantial, they fall a long way short of the expansion of paid work Mr Piachaud and Ms Sutherland calculate is necessary to make further inroads into child poverty.

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