"Rather than be subject to commodity market oscillations, we pay set prices based on quality that are far above commodity and Fairtrade prices.
Second, medicine has become a commodity subject to being priced and regulated like any other commodity.
They did not see team games as a commodity subject to the forces of the free market.
To most current economists, gold is a commodity, subject to the normal fluctuations of supply and demand.
The company plans to dispose of its remaining bulk ingredients business in Europe, including products such as corn syrup which are subject to fluctuating commodity prices, as well as cutting back its struggling Splenda sucralose operations.
Mr. Eder, an affable and frank lawyer who has been the chief executive of Voestalpine since 2004, has managed to keep his company profitable by refocusing steel as more than just a commodity subject to the whims of price fluctuation.
Even failing to achieve best-case reform, simply making the case would refute specious arguments, e.g., the right's treatment of health care as a commodity subject to tender mercies of free market fundamentalism, sacrificing benefits to rising costs and elevating profits above people.
Like many conglomerates, Votorantim sees diversity as a shield: cement apart, its main businesses are internationally traded commodities subject to cylical swings.
By the middle of the 17th century, the list of commodities subject to export duties had increased to include more than 200 articles.
In poor countries this included promotion of economic development, justice and basic health care; in developed countries, the refusal to make of human life a commodity subjected to the market law.
