• Amid all of this messy thinking we miss the simple truth behind our material wealth: It has been achieved through the accumulation, by us and inherited from our forefathers, of a stock of highly configured and embedded tools that make human effort more effective and things possible that never were before.

    FORBES: The Role of Capital Has Politicians Confused

  • You upload your own material from either a simple interface, which deals with individual files, or an advanced interface where you can import entire folders.

    BBC: MediaMaster

  • They were crippled in their battle against the Scots by the simple fact that wine, their raw material, cost up to 20 times the price of barley.

    ECONOMIST: Spirits

  • In putting on their case, the House Republican managers sought to portray a simple logical progression--first that the material which they brought before the Senate showed violations of provisions of the Federal Criminal Code, i.e.

    CNN: Sen. Sarbanes' closed-door impeachment statement

  • The most obvious way would seem to be that Sky (or whoever) become not just the people with the broadcast rights but they become the only people with the filming rights: it would be simple enough then for them to add original material to it, which could not be removed, before the foreign rights were sold on.

    FORBES: BSkyB and Sports Broadcasting Rights

  • He admits that it is not simple to pull the sugars out of non-food material like pulp or wood waste, but says that even factoring in the extraction process, the final cost should be lower than using corn starch or sugar cane, both of which are much higher-priced commodities.

    FORBES: Cobalt Technologies Pushes The Green Chemical Envelope

  • By making it easy to cut wood or other material, the saw allowed humans to build everything from simple shelters to vast skyscrapers, and to harvest forests.

    FORBES: No. 10 The Saw

  • The National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI) has decided in its collective wisdom that a simple link to one of their pages is the use of copyright material.

    FORBES: It Would Have To Be The Irish NewsPapers Trying Something Insanely Stupid Like Charging For Links To Websites

  • If so, that would appear to cross the line from simple information-gathering by people outside a company to sharing of potentially material information by employees who have a duty to keep it confidential.

    FORBES: Insider-Trading Indictment Says Broadcom, Other Employees Were Tech "Consultants"

  • The fundamental model we teach MBAs for thinking about manufacturing is the value chain, a simple model that describes the value adding steps that take a low value material like iron ore and turn it into a high value product like a Ferrari Testarossa.

    FORBES: Sustainable Consumption Rising on the Business Agenda

  • Alex (his name supposedly an acronym for Avian Learning Experiment) eventually learned the names of about 50 objects, knew the numerals from one to six, could perform simple addition and used categories such as similarity and difference, shape, colour and material.

    ECONOMIST: Alex the African Grey

  • Deceptively simple but perfect for this time of year is Adin Steinsaltz's Simple Words , a series of short essays about what it means to be human in a material world.

    NPR: The Least Material of Material Gifts

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