Somehow, the Cuban cigar industry has to find a modus vivendi between modern quality control and the craft of the hand roller.

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Enhancing skills for innovative craft products for the modern consumer and creating sustainable marketing linkages to alleviate poverty and arrest the upward trend towards poverty of the 2000-2010 decade was the aim.

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Turgeman said there was an emerging market for people who want to make things, a movement back to craft culture that takes advantage of modern technology -- sometimes referred to as the maker movement (hence the name of the robot).

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Whether 18th century or midcentury modern, the task at hand is usually an issue of craft and not period.

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The situation is noticeably different (and worse) for our modern indentureds, the young and talented men who perform their craft on the gridiron or the hardwood, but lack the ability to negotiate a free market wage.

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Modern building techniques, however, often depend on teamwork and flexibility, crossing craft lines.

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Modern NGOs still see only the poverty and have labeled this entrepreneur industry as a craft and subjected them to craft preservation type systems rather than promoting it as a once very successful competitive industry.

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