The cost of doing that, to have a dramatic impact, will be between $100 and $200 for most small buildings.

While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a significant impact on how logistics cost performance is viewed. For example, those companies using logistics costs as a percent of sales as their primary measure and who operate in industries such as chemicals and other commodities saw that cost ratio fall in 2005 due to strong upward pricing power that impacted the top line, even though logistics costs also rose. Other industries had rising logistics costs with flat or declining prices for their products, driving up logistics costs as a percent of sales.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

We do have a very dramatic, unheard-of reduction in the cost of claims. It is unprecedented, ... The industry is continuing to pocket a large share of the cost savings.

He achieved everything he ever wanted, and the cost of that ruined him. It was something he never came to terms with. He never did finish another book. The drinking and drug abuse increased, and it was the beginning of his long demise.

It's better to have tall buildings on a small lot than a sprawling lot spread out along the river. The last thing we need is to build a surface parking lot along the river.