Meanwhile, engineers with more sophisticated equipment hope to get a three-dimensional image of the sinkhole.

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"It's a state of the art building with sophisticated electronic equipment, " he said.

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Key technologies transferred by or through Germany to the Soviet Union include: high accuracy machine tools, deep underground tunneling machines, telecommunications equipment, underwater sensors, sophisticated computers and manufacturing equipment associated with microelectronics, advanced composites and superalloys.

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Examples include: high accuracy machine tools, deep underground tunneling machines, telecommunications equipment, underwater surveillance gear, sophisticated computers, manufacturing equipment associated with microelectronics, advanced composites and super-alloys.

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The hub is piloting a portfolio of advanced energy-efficient building technologies and designs using sophisticated sensors and modeling equipment with the goal of creating technologies capable of reducing energy use in existing buildings by 50% by 2015.

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Equipped with sophisticated cameras, infrared sensors and other detection equipment, the small blimps often float 2, 000 feet over an area to keep a round-the-clock watch.

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The scientists there taught him to use sophisticated equipment and how to help them with their work.

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Let us also remind ourselves that these predictions are coming from some of the most sophisticated market-watchers in the world, with all of the resources and research and equipment and data and full-time dedicated staffers that most investors could only dream of.

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