More than 20 ministries and departments, led by the Ministry of Commerce, will hold a two-day conference about logistics and cost-related bottlenecks that get passed on down to consumers.

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Deterred by misperceptions, lack of information, logistics hurdles or cost concerns, less than five percent of cancer patients today join clinical trials in the U.S. denying potential health improvements to them and scientific insights to researchers.

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If they are lucky, countries have nationals in service with fluency in the right languages, but it's common for armed services to have to utilize local people, indeed raising issues of trust as well as cost and logistics.

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It tries to capture the cost of military logistics, rather than environmental impact.

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Mitsubishi Logistics declined to reveal the cost of the acquisition.

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Before settling on magnesium, Microsoft considered aluminum, among other options, taking into account cost, flexibility and manufacturing logistics.

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Some new logistics system that will deliver big savings over the long run will cost more money upfront.

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It remains very much on the table, but everyone involved in the discussions needs to be aware of what that means, both in terms of the logistics and the implementation that I think Secretary Gates talked about last week -- and also the cost.

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