Telecommuting when possible, working in outdoor areas, or bringing toxin-sucking plants to the office can all reduce the quantity of exposure to such chemicals.
He'd had his fill of it as a young man, trying to be a technical draughtsman and then a quantity surveyor, when all he had wanted to do was stay in his mother's kitchen cooking, and then eating, macaroni with sofrito and sausages, or her special filled pancakes.
We cannot satisfy all of our ends with our limited quantity of goods, so we must economize.
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Often, especially when times get tough, the battle over lead quantity and quality takes over all conversations, formal and informal.
Because all prices would adjust to that total quantity of money.
Stacking up the numbers, he realised that human activities were adding CO2 to the atmosphere in a quantity and rate equivalent to all natural processes of absorption or emission of the gas.
The time of payment, the manner of payment, and the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to ever other person.
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Currently, all loose goods sold with reference to units of quantity have to be weighed and sold using the metric system.
And how many people who were tempted by the Surface will look at all the fuss and simply go for a known quantity such as the iPad?
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All else equal, such a rapid increase in the quantity of base money would soon after result in a rapid and general increase in prices throughout the economy.
If we were to, for example, double the money supply but also double the quantity of goods, then there would be no price change at all.
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It's actually all starting to sound a little bit like Firestone, but given the sheer quantity of phones HTC produces, we wouldn't put it past 'em to be hard at work at several Snapdragon-powered phones with virtually identical specs right now, possibly with different markets in mind.
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So the way it measures liabilities is to calculate the quantity of assets a pension fund should ideally hold to meet future pension payments if all those assets were in low-risk bonds.
Modern Austrians look askance at monetarists for seeking any increase in quantity, but it says here both schools are flawed for presuming to know at all what the proper supply of dollars should be.
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Forty computer programmers from Facebook, Google and Amazon and Citizen Science Alliance are spending the next three days brainstorming in London trying to devise a game that we can all download as an app that will mean whilst we "play" we are also analysing the vast quantity of gene data that is out there.
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