The sole purpose of the company was getting me recorded. It was extraordinarily nice of them.

The purpose of a consent is basically to protect the doctor or protect the company that supplied the vaccine. And so that the patient really shouldn't be able to say 'please give me this vaccine' then turn around then sue the person that gives it to them. I think that's a wise precaution for the doctor to have in place.

Despite seed company mergers and major industry changes, the plant has been part of the Phillips area for 60 years because of the strong community support and the high-quality seed grown in the areas.

Since I was commissioner, I asked [the company] to produce the data underlying the rates. The thing that was really different was hail and wind. The risk of natural disaster was much greater. That caused maybe 90% of the difference in the rates, between Northern Virginia and Austin.

With (the company) being out of the loop, so to speak, that does bode well for everybody. I imagine there was a collective sigh of relief in Raleigh. I'm sure they wanted that.

Some of the pagers are actually military standard as far as toughness goes, made by a company in Switzerland.