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We don't suspect any person in particular. But there must have been someone who handled these materials.

Heinz Jungwirth

You get the pretty images due to the light hitting the defects in the materials.

Michael Davidson

We don't expect to see land prices ever come down, but it's a lot harder to say whether building materials will.

Dave Loveland

We have the labor. What we're going to need is the materials.

Norm Johnson

Hazardous materials or toxic materials are a real threat.

Patrick Libbey

Higher materials costs looks like they're being offset by better pricing. That was an issue, especially with Ingersoll-Rand that we were watching for.

Thomas Leritz

We try to recycle those components because they contain toxic materials that we don't want in the landfill.

Paula Clark

We have adaptive materials we have to buy for our preschool classes. That can be expensive. We need adaptive crayons with a knob on top of each one for a child to grasp. We need loop scissors and basic things like glue sticks that are huge so our kids can grab them.

Fran Harmon

For most of the materials, there will be a cost to you. This is not a money making project, and I don't think it ever will be.

Ann Pistell

We have the most leverage of any work group at the Boeing Company on the bottom line. We design the process. We design the product. We determine the materials.

Charles Bofferding

We were planning to build another hangar, but the cost of building materials has gone through the roof.

Johnny Thompson

This was a great building with all of the latest materials handling systems you could ask for. But it didn't have a warehouse management system (WMS) that could meet the demands of our customers.

Bruce Mantz

I cut [some] out of salaries because I didn't want to eliminate the materials budget altogether - that's what it essentially would have done otherwise.

Rosann Sanders

It's going to escalate the introduction of other materials, but that's years away.

Mark Lambert

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

Firman Gani

We tried to play some of the materials that were here off this modern vocabulary we were dealing with.

Paula Beall

SCORE counselors are always looking for cutting-edge business materials to provide our clients.

Fred Thomas

This is not to try and get back money. It is to get our materials back so it can be used by other members of the community.

Barbara Pickell

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here.

Peter Diamandis

We are going to collect all the material which was produced from '45 onward, everything, every piece of it. No one has done it. We know that the filmed materials ... are very, very important and are becoming more important.

Avner Shalev

Its biggest weakness was the interior materials, and they have gone after that.

Karl Brauer

Therefore we buy materials here in China and ship them abroad by sea. The biggest advantage is that we can avoid quota restrictions and trade frictions.

Huang Jun

This kind of packet of materials would include -- even though it's a small packet -- all sorts of things, including the gloves, the masks, the suits, the goggles, disinfectants, etc.

Kent Hill

A lot of suspicious materials in it.

Peter Judge

These hammers are made with high-tech lightweight materials that make them easy to heft and balance.

Terry Tuerk

In the flophouse where this was built in Leeds, they had commercial grade refrigerators to keep the materials cool, ... an indicator of a problem.

Michael Sheehan

This is the first step to what we think is going to be a very large and useful class of materials.

Adrien Cote

We believe that Applied Materials' licensing practices are in full compliance with the law and we intend to fully cooperate with the Department of Justice's review.

Jeffrey Lettes

The high quality approach to everything we buy also includes products and not just raw materials.

Tom Jessup

The process has to be methodical. We deal with inherently hazardous materials. If we're not safe, we've got trouble.

David P. Gardner

We are excited to be working with libraries worldwide to digitize and index information from the worlds printed materials.

Christopher Payne

What we really concentrate on is the language that people need materials on in Marshalltown, which is Spanish. We also have a lot of bilingual materials.

Carole Winkleblack

We are ready. We've got our equipment checked and materials stockpiled.

Tom Wendorf

The fascinating thing about my materials is that they have texture and flexibility and are forever, just like an idea.

Monica Naugle

All this high-vacuum equipment is expensive and cumbersome and also incompatible with materials like plastics.

Jack Mccarthy

If raw materials pick up again, of course we have to go back to product prices. But if raw material prices are stable we will not go through to our customer.

Matthias Zachert

The staff may be talented enough to do the job. They may need different materials . . .

Bruce Tonjes

Due to skyrocketing costs for energy, raw materials and health care, CTNA cannot continue to operate the Charlotte plant with our current manufacturing cost structure.

Alan Hippe

At other institutions, faculty has no choice. They just move everything from print to digital. Our faculty will determine exactly which materials students see.

John Harwood

We're just working with the hotels with their own individual marketing materials, and we're putting together a campaign to attract those corporate retreats and conventions.

Jason Crawford

It just costs money to have marketing materials.

Susan Foy

It's going to be difficult to handle the sheer volume of information and the slick materials and giveaway incentives.

Deane Beebe

Until they search each and every remaining house and remove all the fallen materials ... they will not know how many people are there.

Dan Buckner

The country is turning into a raw materials appendage, ... There is no social justice.

Gennady Zyuganov

I am confident that we can get the materials, but packaging and deployment will be the biggest nut to crack.

Charles Johnson

Nevertheless, many business firms indicated to the District Banks that they expect high prices for energy and construction materials to persist.

Philadelphia Fed

I can't put labels ? on these materials.

David Greenwood

Our materials cost has gone down over the past few years. But we do the best we can.

Betty Anne Reiter

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

Henry G. Stott

We are going to make sure that we inventory our new materials and take out the ones that are no longer our core curriculum. It is a very common request for the company.

Renae Dreier

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

Marc Newson

Students keep books for years, and feel a connection to materials taught in that way.

Seth Truby

With cost increases, unfortunately a lot of builders will sign a contract with a homeowner and halfway through construction the cost of materials goes up 12 percent. Frequently, the builder has to eat that.

Jim Folkman

We think we do something that really makes a difference in the community, when we lose materials, we're unable to serve the community as well as we usually do.

Deborah Wheeler

He was amazing. He had some big-time, highlight-reel materials in those returns.

Kurt Weinberg

Hopefully we've got building materials.

Mark Gray

It's one thing to give out your materials, it's quite another to bully and intimidate students.

Donna Lieberman

If China's economy does simmer down, it will have an adverse impact on the materials sector, and on commodities, including oil.

Joseph Battipaglia

No campaign materials are allowed inside the polling place. Either on the person or signs.

Ann Beard

Intelligence was received that a group was making arrangements to stockpile chemicals and other materials capable of making explosives.

Morris Iemma

That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures.

Craig Scott

We chose materials that feel good under your feet and against your hands.

Leila Bijan

It's just gotten a lot worse in the last six to eight months, and we're assuming it's because building materials have gone up (in price). Obviously, with the hurricanes there's a lot more demand.

Kathy Day

The real demand source is China, rather than Europe, but the country is rapidly alleviating its raw materials input problems.

Jon Bergtheil

These materials can endanger public health and harm the environment when improperly disposed.

Maureen Gorsen

We're busy nonetheless. Our folks and our equipment and our materials obviously are far less strained, and so is our budget.

Bill Stowe

It doesn't ever really change my methods or the way I do things, I always approach things in the same way, think about things in the same way, get inspired in the same way. I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

Marc Newson

Do you have the right materials and do you the right conditions? The materials are certainly there.

Torrence Johnson

We're using a variety of materials, adapting the engineering to what we can find.

Walter Baumy

Inter-library loan allows us to expand our collection without buying the book or materials.

Beth Hansen

We're donating the materials and helping with the design. But the kids, along with volunteers, will plant their own garden.

Ron Reed

We have at least 100 already but we will keep working on them as long as we have materials and items. We plan on dropping off the bags at a donation drop site.

Darla Myers

I just love the design, and of course I love the materials. These things are dug out of the earth ... it's so incredible to me that these aren't man-made things. They're beautiful things.

Angela Cummings

I did sketches with pencils because they didn't cost much. I didn't have the money to buy paint. Materials aren't cheap, and I was on extremely low money.

Jody Craddock

Lots of times, the women just purchase their own materials.

Maedyne Jenkins

During a hazardous materials incident you may not want to go to the basement. You may want to upstairs.

Bary Lusby

It's no secret we have an economy based on construction. I don't know how we'll escape labor and materials shortages.

Rebecca Holmes

The disasters around the world have had an effect on (the availability) of materials. Everybody doing construction is seeing that.

Larry Bush

While we were at the house, our officers saw contraband materials. There was evidence meth was made there.

Robert Fowler

So far this year, we've donated in excess of $2.5 million in materials and cash to Habitat for Humanity on a national basis.

Jeff Nobers

We are opening an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials related to the NSA.

Trent Duffy

We do not know whether toxic materials have been burned, ... It's possible, it's even likely to some extent, but it's not something to be panicked about.

Greg Mello

I was at that time working as an agriculture missionary. I helped him purchase the materials to build a new home.

David Brandon

It's a visual feast. The colors, the materials, the intricate designs featured in these costumes are all works of art.

Ric Ambrose

We expect ongoing pressure from higher raw materials.

Bodo Uebber

We will be purchasing recycled materials to show we are conscious of the environment, and our students will be aware of it as well.

Ron Garrison

The industry and the technology that you need to produce these materials we'll have on hand. It's based on last century's industrial engineering technology.

Joseph Palaia

The irony to me is I didn't have the clearest idea of how this would come together, but they provided me all the time and all the materials that I would need to be able to find it.

Mikel Rouse

They start out cute and furry, but then they grow up and become destructive. They can gnaw or scratch lots of materials when they're in a stressful environment.

Leonard Sonnenschein

If not for stretchy materials, these patients would have to have shoes made.

Bob Toth

We did discover some materials, and they've been sent away for analysis. We're not prepared to speculate on what was contained in the vials.

Simon Langford

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

As a consumer electronics maker, we already enjoy great benefits from the Board of Investment, which has helped us reduce the import duties we pay on raw materials and parts.

Daizo Ito

When we have to repeatedly regenerate these materials because they're not durable, we release more emissions.

Victor Li

We basically want to make these materials available to anybody and everybody who has a stake in selling beer.

Bob Lachky

All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's the natural organic materials that are fatty in nature.

John Windsor

That was a cause of anxiety, because they were starting classes without access to study materials.

John Beckman

We hope to get some bigger donations of money and materials, like lights, fence, etc., now that folks know we are really going through with building the park.

Patty Murray

Sure, the price of materials has gone up, but you wouldn't think it would cost double.

John Greenwood

What we're saying is, who are the real cheaters? They are the ones who are using these illegally obtained materials.

Michael Rains

These devices are in people's garages and closets. The idea is to keep those bulk materials and hazardous materials out of landfills and give people options for what to do with these machines.

Richard Mcintire

When many of the schools in the school district were first built, they were not done with the highest quality materials or systems.

Bill Hirsh

China is industrializing and they have to source materials and power.

Alfred Wong

The limits along the highway of the collapse were controlled by what the materials that the highway was sitting on -- in this case, the bay mud. This has nothing to do with the liquefaction problem. This has to do with the shaking problem.

Carl Wentworth

It's the highest projection in 27 years. What's happened is the hurricanes, especially Katrina, have increased demand for durable goods and construction materials.

Sandy Brown

We have seen a substantial increase in the cost of our raw materials, especially coking coal, iron ore pellets and scrap.

Davinder Chugh

They have donated up to $600 worth of donated time and materials to the township.

Dave Mcaninch

We also had to do a lot of research about materials and cost.

Trevor Williams

I started to design the collection by designing the fabric. ... I had some antique fabrics that I had developed into new fabrics, and then introduced reflective materials into the fabrics.

Narciso Rodriguez

Every article is carved by hand, so prices depend on both the raw materials and the workmanship.

Ye Ling

Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together.

Leo Atkinson

It's a beautiful aircraft. I've flown in it. He's put a lot into it, a lot of high-quality materials. It shows.

Paul Marshall

Someone sitting up at midnight can't call me - but they can certainly go to their Web page and enter a request for some materials or information, and that's very helpful.

Rob Schilling

We differ from many designers, in that we both have a love of making furniture. There's no gap between the design, the construction, or the materials, because we not only design the furniture, we are the craftsmen who make it.

Brian Slocum

That was probably because of materials. After the hurricane, materials went up.

Chuck Ewings

From July until the end of December was one of the highest periods ever of increases for transportation projects. Labor costs are not an issue here - it's raw materials.

Darrell Johnson

Commodity stocks are moving in line with the prices of raw materials. Higher commodity prices are feeding through to earnings.

Masayuki Ito

Our materials budget for the current year is $19,500, which is the lowest it's been in many years. The proposed budget that you have presented to us is $10,000 for the year.

Willy Koppel

Many of the intermediate materials for nano are toxic, so the question is how you manage that process.

David Chen

We've tried to emphasize that a little bit in some of our communications materials -- apparently not enough. We have plans to get that message out.

Derek Hall

It was up and running, with materials inside, in three days.

Beth Brown

Important (research) primary materials.

David Hull

BP is a very upstanding company and they make every effort to insure safety. It's a very dangerous operation. You're dealing with a lot of volatile materials.

Bruce Lanni

I loved to go through the fabrics. Anytime I needed something new, I would pick out pieces of materials from the buffet.

Betsy Mcgrail

It really was a non-issue. The teachers were more concerned with making sure they got the support materials they needed.

Ginger Davis

I don't question the need for someone to look into dangerous materials and make sure they are being handled appropriately.

Tom Curtis

Sales of materials and intermediate commodities are improving due to the increase in demands for export and information technology-related products.

Tatsushi Shikano

It was so quick that people were brought down by the materials which sank with them.

Ali Mohamed

There is a possibility of worker, resident and marine life exposure to hazardous materials.

Roger Baldwin

We do use them for hazardous materials incidents.

Bary Lusby

We try to build laptops out of special materials.

Shawn Chang

Fire investigators have seen evidence of ... violations. We are looking into issues regarding [access] and flammability of materials.

John Oxendine

If they donate the materials, we'll build them in their parking lots.

Robert Maxwell

Nothing in the materials collected suggest that there was anything on the banned list of substances.

Richard Ings

We're adventurous. We process different kinds of materials, not just steel aluminum.

Dick Nichols

When we lose the materials the cost goes back to the families and that's what we try not to do.

Brad Bates

It kind of opened up people's minds to different things. People are learning what different materials do and are experimenting more.

James Richardson

If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cyberspace.

You Quanxi

We brought back as much of the old team as we could. They had to be retrained to work with a new WMS and to learn how the WMS interacts with all the materials handling equipment.

Bruce Mantz

There is evidence that the explosive materials were attached to the body.

Made Mangku Pastika

We have told the (International Atomic Energy) Agency that we are going to inject new initial materials (uranium ore) into the production chain.

Javad Vaidi

All these neighborhoods that are flooded - you can't just drain it out and rebuild those houses. They're history. They've been soaking in hazardous materials for days. It's done.

Bill Sharp

Everybody is having problems with raw materials. If they start sliding their schedules out, it would give us a chance to catch up with what we have.

John Gazecki

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

Hodding Carter

We have found spare parts for an IED but the materials were as yet unassembled.

An Roy

It's also my understanding that the materials proposed for the exterior of the building would be ... about the easiest and lowest cost to maintain.

Sharon Alexander

We are now able to offer customers a dependable choice for 100 percent of their CFM56-3 materials at a competitive price.

Louis R. Chenevert

All the sides are pretty good. We'll just knock the roof off and put a new one on. I have the materials at my ranch.

Tom Fuhrman

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.

Joseph Story

It's difficult to find materials and artisans capable of producing a building of this scale and complexity ... the nooks and crannies are what makes it complicated, but that's what some people would say gives it its charm. I'm one of them.

John Ziegler

We donated $15,000 in materials necessary to construct the house.

Jeff Nobers

Basically, anything can be used as a raw material including waste of domestic households, the agricultural industry, or forestry industry. But to make it into a food preservative or flavoring, the materials used should not be offensive esthetically.

Purnama Dharmaji

That's to do with the use of materials. Also, the lighting is particularly nice which gives it that cool, Japanese feel.

Alan Cleavor

Everything I see in this existence tells me that we were created by the hand of a teacher. One that has left behind all the materials needed to inspire and complete our education.

Robert Anthony

Our organizations together have helped 41 families and over $300,000 in equipment, labor and materials to care of their cooling needs.

Louis Hobaica

We rely very heavily on oil-based materials for our everyday life.

David Solomon

He was a pioneer as far as the materials (he used) and the modern design.

Courtney Newman

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Benjamin Haydon

The new S80 is about evolutionary design. All the shapes and materials represent a continuous development of our design language.

Steve Mattin

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

Yoshio Taniguchi

On a day-to-day basis, I am appalled at the hazardous materials that just pass by us on the railroad.

Jeff Leitner

Artists donate to cultural nonprofits or other nonprofits, and all they get is the cost of their materials. If you have a painting that's worth $5,000, you may be able to deduct $20 for the canvas.

Tom Healy

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Mayor Perry Barse

We are trying to learn more about comets to see what the first materials were like or how water arrived on Earth. It's important because all the atoms in our bodies were formed from the stars.

Michael Zolensky

We want to send an Amazon securities employee out to his home to collect whatever materials he has. This is an important issue for us.

Patty Smith

We're going to have a lot of additional demand for materials, both in the cleanup process and the repair process and going forward in rebuilding.

Michael Carliner

It's going to divert some key materials. It's going to have an effect on building elsewhere. A lot of the areas that were hit are areas that produce wood products.

Michael Carliner

We are caught in the situation of needing more materials for the construction effort and less ability to make them. The port's closure disrupts a lot of supply lines.

Peter Morici

Fortunately right now, McAllen has no hazardous materials passing through.

Michael Hernandez

When he said that [the students] 'may' have access to pornographic materials.

Laurie Taylor

Applied Materials is the bellwether. The company's results give a good indication of what we can expect for the rest of the industry.

Sunil Reddy

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

Fisher Ames

It is a fine, well-centered collection of materials for the history of science.

John Ingram

You're creating art that involves living materials.

Tim Shea

If we don't pull the hazardous materials out of the marsh, they're going to sink in and we're going to be looking at groundwater issues and wildlife issues and adverse impacts to recreation for decades to come.

Evan Hirsche

Eco-industries consume raw materials, but they try to recycle everything else and dispose as little as possible. Everything is a closed loop.

Erik Monge

It measures the differences in conductivity of the materials it encounters. The conductivity of groundwater is different from that of air.

Emily Tzinberg

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Edwin H. Land

Layered materials have very amazing structures. Their complex architecture allows you to mix very weak constituents and create something that is strong and tough.

Eduardo Saiz

It's definitely going to create different shortages of lumber and concrete and other materials. A lot of depends on how much they want to rebuild.

Ed Epping

It was the committee's feeling that these were the five materials best situated to be pulled from the waste stream -- much of these materials were already being pulled.

Ed Coletta

We've gone from zero percent of our raw materials purchased in Asia to 75 percent of our raw materials purchased in Asia.

Ed Sawyer