The top end of the art market has escaped many of the problems faced by the wider global economy, with new records consistently being set for individual artists.

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The most valuable finds, however, allow Williams to walk new engineers through the process of repairing older machines, exposing them to the craft--and the art--of solving problems.

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Of course, mastering the art of pre-made marinades creates problems of its own, as your family starts clamoring daily for the magic of grilled meat.

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We see today's problems transposed like one of those school art books with the transparent sheet where we can trace an outline over a picture.

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Much of the art of alloying is to add the right mixtures of metals to reduce these problems while increasing your ability to make other changes to the shape.

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Toyota, moreover, has perfected the art of detecting and fixing quality problems early, often before customers even notice them.

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"Of course art doesn't serve up answers to specific business problems on a plate, " she says.

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But the establishment of a major contemporary-art museum in London has not been without problems.

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"Of course, it goes without saying, it's war, it is about hunger, we have all of that, yes, but tilt the scale and if you can show the potential and the solution to these and not just point out blatantly the bad side, the problems, the crises that we have, " he says from the state-of-the-art CCTV studios in Nairobi.

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But al Alousi sees these as only minor problems for his art, which he says is the "purest thing" in his life, a matter of expression, beauty and experimentation.

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