shelf-life

Unlike farmers in many developing countries, however, agribusinesses in industrial countries have numerous tools at their disposal to prevent food from spoiling--including pasteurization and preservation facilities, drying equipment, climate-controlled storage units, transport infrastructure, and chemicals designed to expand shelf-life.

Danielle Nierenberg: Reducing Food Waste: Making the Most of Our Abundance Danielle Nierenberg 2011

And sometimes when I make the mistake of carrying a prickly exchange too far, extending it beyond its justified shelf-life, things become especially uncomfortable.

Steven Weber: Trickle-Down Ugly Steven Weber 2012

While in principle, open science is a great idea, in practice, there are many hurdles, including the fear of being “scooped”, the need to give appropriate credit, the problems of metadata definition and of data provenance, the cost of curation, and the fact that software has a very short shelf-life, and so on.

2009 November 26 | Serendipity 2009

Unlike farmers in many developing countries, however, agribusinesses in industrial countries have numerous tools at their disposal to prevent food from spoiling--including pasteurization and preservation facilities, drying equipment, climate-controlled storage units, transport infrastructure, and chemicals designed to expand shelf-life.

Danielle Nierenberg: Reducing Food Waste: Making the Most of Our Abundance Danielle Nierenberg 2011

Unlike farmers in many developing countries, however, agribusinesses in industrial countries have numerous tools at their disposal to prevent food from spoiling--including pasteurization and preservation facilities, drying equipment, climate-controlled storage units, transport infrastructure, and chemicals designed to expand shelf-life.

Danielle Nierenberg: Reducing Food Waste: Making the Most of Our Abundance Danielle Nierenberg 2011

The first for long shelf-life, and the latter for portability.

Kindle Me This, Lou Man Lou Anders 2009

Thus, regardless of why rap has such a short shelf-life, such a brief life span necessarily translates into cheaper prices in a clearance scenario.

Another Puzzle from the Tower Bankruptcy Sale, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Everything we do to food makes it more calorific, from the plants and animals we choose to cultivate to the processing that transforms food into stuff with a permanent shelf-life.

Matthew Yglesias » Health Scares Reduce Smoking, But Not Obeisity 2009

Being unearned, irredemable for gold, beer, or goods of any kind (not even redeemable for a campaign promise!), and having no shelf-life, votes carry so little economic weight that it is not clear WHAT information they embody.

See One-Man, One-Vote Questioned on National TV, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Unlike farmers in many developing countries, however, agribusinesses in industrial countries have numerous tools at their disposal to prevent food from spoiling--including pasteurization and preservation facilities, drying equipment, climate-controlled storage units, transport infrastructure, and chemicals designed to expand shelf-life.

Danielle Nierenberg: Reducing Food Waste: Making the Most of Our Abundance Danielle Nierenberg 2011