But uncontrolled growth without continual pruning and streamlining is a potential recipe for disaster.
Vision Robotics, a company based in San Diego, has demonstrated a prototype vine-pruning robot.
CEOYun, in office since 1996, has been pruning the Lee family's influence bit by bit.
To bring this (money) tree back to health, a severe pruning will be required.
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Slow-growth shrubs are definitely low-maintenance plants, requiring less pruning and creating less yard waste.
"She used to do all the weeding and I did the planting, pruning and digging, " he said.
Janet focuses on buying leading mutual funds and ETFs and is regularly pruning her portfolio of laggards.
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Any IT department that has all the above elements in place would have an easy time of pruning.
As well as pruning workforces, many manufacturing, metals and mining companies are idling some factories and mothballing others.
No doubt Mr Mortier's festival could do with a spot of judicious pruning.
Address dead limbs and other structural problems with smart pruning or the use of support cables or other techniques.
"One of my favorite things in life is pruning fruit trees, " he confided.
The French bank agreed to buy the prime-brokerage unit of Bank of America, which is pruning its investment-banking activities.
The next 20 hours see a pruning back of those connections, rather as in the very young human brain.
Before then, however, a lot of brutal pruning will have to be done.
Reliability also comes from employing the latest in viticulture and automation, such as the mechanical pruning and harvesting of grapes.
Just as in that developmental process, the new synapses seem to enhance memory only once the pruning has taken place.
Pruning back tax expenditures (both to raise revenue and to cut rates) and culling spending programs (including entitlements) are better alternatives.
Unless it implements policies to restore growth the GOP will find itself again discredited for addressing root rot with pruning shears.
The entitlement reforms in the Ryan budget would be a good start, along with some much-needed pruning of discretionary spending.
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While they don't need to worry about intricacies like pruning the vines, Greg enjoys doting over the plants as a hobby.
Most Republicans talk about pruning government in the abstract, but shrink from offering details that might offend one lobby or another.
Pfeiffer has slashed 5, 000 jobs in less than four months, pruning away moneylosing operations and absorbing the ones he wants to keep.
If this passes, it could lead to parents pruning Facebook pages mercilessly.
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This is sometimes observed to have the same effect as artificial pruning.
Without the hard work of pruning, simplifying and continually reshaping the firm, unbridled growth gets out of control like a garden overrun with weeds.
Pruning it back became a very difficult undertaking, and business priorities often prevented us from investing in engineering cycles to streamline the data center operations.
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Good pruning requires skill to balance the growth of the vine.
This reminded me of the careful pruning of features required to make mobile applications, which is, in fact, a good analogy for a touring band.
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If the predominant noises from Capitol Hill are those of pruning shears being sharpened, then we will know the austerity wing of the GOP is prevailing.
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