To sum up John Maynard Keynes, it can even make sense to bury money in bottles, so that miners, and the suppliers of their pickaxes and overalls, and those who sell food and materials to those suppliers can, in turn, benefit from the circulation of money that they dig up.
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The 21 Americans in the crew were trying to deliver tons of food and other agricultural materials for the World Food Program, to be distributed among destitute Muslims in that Kenyan port city, and beyond.
Britain was thus able to concentrate on manufacturing and import its food and raw materials.
"Unless such restrictions are stopped, the civilian population will continued to suffer from shortages of medical care, food and shelter materials, " the statement said.
Next to the bank's entrance there is a small store where people can use their green bills to buy food or cleaning materials at very low prices.
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Rather than simply handing over money, the Saudi government is promising to pay Saudi companies for their exports of, say, food or building materials to Iraq, if Iraq cannot pay.
This is the situation currently unfolding at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where regulators have until March 31 to comply with a consent judgment by responding to a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to ban the use of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging, food containers and other materials likely to be ingested or to come into contact with food.
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He lacks ties to local political machines that dole out building materials, food or cash in return for votes.
Many charities operated there, providing everything from food to clothes to materials to build floors for people with dirt ones.
While AquaBounty was waiting for FDA approval, other researchers around the world have been tinkering with animals' genes, to produce food, medicines, materials, improve livestock or create better pets.
The third, energy, industrial materials and food, came both from new demanders in the emerging world but also because not much capital had been invested the preceding 20 years.
Dutch conservative MEP Peter van Dalen said it was time to "stop talking and move to action", claiming that biodiversity is the basis of all the EU's food products and raw materials.
First and foremost economics: China already is or will in time become that largest and fastest growing market for a range of Japanese exports, a key production base for its industrial companies, and a source of important imports, from finished goods, to parts, to primary materials and food.
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Firms that sell raw materials to other food companies can benefit, for one.
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Investors will also converge on the compelling opportunities in core economic sectors such as banking, mobile telecoms, internet, electricity, building materials, and food processing.
SOEs in sectors like equipment manufacturing, raw-materials production and food processing.
Input prices continued to rise, particularly for fuel, other petroleum-based materials, metals, food, and chemicals.
By and large, British savings were financing mines, railways and frontier expansion in the New World so that it could produce food for British workers and raw materials for British factories.
China is a very big consumer of oil, of food, of all kinds of raw materials.
The wide array of imported construction materials, household goods and food are then loaded onto rows of waiting trucks.
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Companies with heavy exposure to raw materials, particularly in the food and beverage segments, have to balance rising input costs with consumer demand.
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While companies faced growing pressure from rising costs of input materials, including fuel, food and labour, that was not matched by rising output prices.
It may begin winding down because some combination of fuels, ores, building materials, soils, water, or food be- comes depleted.
Prof Elliot from QUB said the substitution of "low quality, low value materials for the true foodstuff has plagued food production for centuries".
The premise: Buy up lots of small companies in a fragmented business--such as used cars, funeral homes, office products, food distribution and medical diagnostics--then purchase raw materials in bulk to cut costs.
Heinz ( HNZ) and Medtronic ( MDT) on Tuesday, Applied Materials ( AMAT) on Wednesday, Hormel Food ( HRL) and Patterson Companies ( PDCO) on Thursday, and Tiffany ( TIF) on Friday.
And they would have to decide not just which crops to plant but whether to use them for food, carbon capture or things like bio-industrial raw materials.
This means the government has to have plans in place to get materials to people and set up disaster relief sites to distribute food and basic goods, but also has to have plans to temporarily suspend utility shut-offs and closures etc.
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But it's vital that any prioritization of agriculture is not at the expense of the trade in raw materials, according to Ousmane Badiane, Africa director for the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Retail numbers from the Commerce Department Wednesday show that consumers have found more spending momentum to meet rising commodity and materials costs that are already being passed directly to consumers, with food prices, apparel, and most noticeably gasoline prices all rising in the first quarter of 2011.
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