But this is a long, labor-intensive process, not at all minimalist in spirit.

Counting the votes will be a lengthy and labor-intensive process.

Creating those graphics, already a labor-intensive process, will become even more costly.

In a labor-intensive process, each saddle had to be crafted individually.

"We have to appreciate how labor-intensive the process is," he said.

Even if they did, moving to an alternate satellite in a different orbit is a labor-intensive process.

That is the sort of labor-intensive process often found in a small company, the kind that doesn't have a shipping department.

Although the cost of computer hardware continues to decline, program writing has not, since it is still a labor-intensive process.

"Because I have a small number of people, it would be impossible to do small projects" with such a labor-intensive process, he said.

Several officials said this labor-intensive process distracted from the agencies' principal work.