#manufacture

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#alone #been #beneficial #concentrated #country

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#allows #block #communities #community #construct

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#cable #companies #computer #designers #enormous

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#cannot #content #desire #each #fictions

It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of preventable, chronic diseases ever in the history of mankind has occurred as a direct result of modern medicine and scientific reductionism. Modern medicine is not an antidote for the incredible harms caused by the modern food industry, but it is an effective distraction. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #healthcare-reform-in-the-us #heart-disease #manufactured-food #metabolic-syndrome

We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #heart-disease #manufactured-food #naturvore #whole-foods

Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development. ↗

— John Engler

#development #industrial #manufacturers #nearly #percent

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. ↗

— John Engler

#building #doing #employ #finished #into

We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one. ↗

— Vince Cable

#announce #balance #bank #british #business

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#america #american #american consumers #asia #attractive