#container

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#american taxpayer #container #equitable #facilities #fee

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#cargo #containers #customs #dangerous #economic

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#cargo #carriages #cheaper #containers #current

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. ↗

— Angela Carter

#bottle #container #idea #inside #like

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#end #in the end #into #novel #pour

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#direct #familiar #feelings #function #i

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#container #create #itself #narrative #people

You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#boxes #containers #controlled #covered #each

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#casualties #cause #container #could #day