Famous Quotes & Sayings

While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a significant impact on how logistics cost performance is viewed. For example, those companies using logistics costs as a percent of sales as their primary measure and who operate in industries such as chemicals and other commodities saw that cost ratio fall in 2005 due to strong upward pricing power that impacted the top line, even though logistics costs also rose. Other industries had rising logistics costs with flat or declining prices for their products, driving up logistics costs as a percent of sales.

Bernie Siegel

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

Many household chemicals meet at least one of these criteria to varying degrees.

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

We are not mixing our chemicals in Orange County in a tank next to million-dollar homes.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Only two of the 10 industry groups surveyed this month - chemicals and metal products - expect prices to rise in their sector over the coming three months. Cost pressures from high oil and transportation prices will only serve to depress profits further,

Craig Venter

One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.

There is a power plant on North Lake that uses toxic chemicals, that's no secret. Are those chemicals released into the lake or on the property? We have a right to know.

From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.

Bill Richardson

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list.

This was not from explosive materials, but from chemicals at the laboratory, maybe mixed with gas.

Gloria Steinem

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

Donella Meadows

If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

When the government announces these chemicals are unsafe on food they're ... announcing, in effect, that the farm groups and chemical companies who have said there is no problem were wrong,

While organic foods aren't necessarily more nutritious, eating them means you'll be consuming fewer chemicals (and consequently, so will baby).

Orson Scott Card

I am a creature of chemicals.

We'll have to decide then whether they're safe to upright, whether we need to offload chemicals in them into over-the-road trucks or other tank cars,

Sandy Berger

There is no question in my mind that the Sudanese factory was producing chemicals that can be used in VX gas,

Some of these children have eaten batteries, clothes, blankets, mattresses, wood, carpets, chemicals and anything they could obtain, which is why the kitchen cupboards are locked,

We were delighted with the outcome of this important event, which took place at a critical moment for global petrochemicals supply and demand. The Middle East will become pivotal in global chemicals trade and the location of many exciting new projects, sponsored by regional governments as well as the private sector.

We know that these chemicals are toxic. And we know that they're exceeding the levels the government has set for these chemicals in water,

Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

We were looking to get chemicals off the streets, away from kids. However, we did get the labs, we hope all of them,

Suzanne Somers

To successfully lose weight after 40, you need to understand that imbalanced hormones and chemicals have a huge impact on your health. It is possible, however, to live a clean, healthy, and long life - with a slim body, even after 40!

We had previously shown that ultraviolet light has an effect on mood that tanners value. Now, in this small study, we've shown that some tanners actually experience withdrawal symptoms when the 'feel-good' chemicals are blocked.

Slow food, free-range, no steroids, eat local, and natural winemaking are all part of a general yearning for simpler times. But the fact is that most winemakers these days, big and small, have drastically lessened the use of chemicals in the vineyard, embracing such concepts as organically grown, biodynamic, and sustainable.

David Perlmutter

Antioxidants are chemicals that break down or neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals - chemicals produced as a byproduct of normal cellular metabolism.

J. J. Johnson

As different economies like China are growing their needed for Petra chemicals and all, the by-products for Petra-chemicals is growing.

The results were in line. The chemicals cycle is humming right now. The high dividend is not surprising, seeing the growth in profit.

Dow should pay for the thousands of tons of lethal chemicals that have been dumped recklessly at the plant site. These are a health hazard and have to be cleaned up.

It was contaminated from the flood surge. It washed in raw sewage from a sewage plant and chemicals from a local chemical plant.