According to his company's website, Mr Dini's industrial sized 3D printer uses sand and a special binding agent to create a "marble like material" stronger than cement.

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Seattle's Tom Kundig, of the firm Olson Kundig, draws on the mining and logging history of the Pacific Northwest to create homes with huge walls of rusted steel, exposed wood and steel beams and industrial sized doors.

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The population in rural Kansas is shrinking, as family farms give way to industrial-sized farms that require fewer workers.

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His base in Yvelines, a suburb of Paris, was an industrial-sized site incorporating a school where, on any day, 400 working chefs would be retraining in every branch of cookery.

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Unscom was told once before that it had ticked off all there was to know, only to discover almost by accident that Iraq was still concealing an industrial-sized chemical and biological weapons programme.

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In the short run the influx of new money can actually boost returns, they say, because managers buying, say, stock in a mid-sized industrial company might see significant gains as they buy more.

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But Sullivan argues in his recent newsletter that there is another historically accurate pattern that would keep you all in on stocks, especially big Dow Jones Industrial Average-sized stocks (note that Grantham and Ken Fisher love the very biggest blue chip stocks).

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There is probably no better place to look for the effects of industrial policy today than China, and it is to data on the performance of medium-sized and large Chinese companies between 1998 and 2007 that the economists turn to test their ideas.

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