Improving global economic conditions have prompted raw materials cost increases. We have seen escalating raw material, energy and transportation costs over an extended period.

The form of the water [for example, liquid, permafrost, or impregnated in minerals] depends on many things, such as the distance that the asteroid formed from the Sun (and therefore its temperature) and what internal heat the asteroid has since generated.

It's right up there with divorce and death in terms of the emotional impact.

The fact we didn't sign more was not for the want of trying.

It is a myth that when some jobs are gone, people will just move up that [economic] ladder to another job. That is not always the case.

I've been through the coming back and trying to go to college and raise a family.

This is proof positive that in fact the sand is moving at present.

It was heart-wrenching and humiliating. We were unbelievably bad.