Stratospheric Quotes

We should expect to be able to detect recovery in most regions of the world within the next 15 to 45 years. That's based on full compliance with the Montreal Protocol and its amendments and no other complicating factors such as major volcanic eruptions or enhanced stratospheric cooling. - Elizabeth Weatherhead

This was my position during the E-VAT debates in the Senate. Because of the stratospheric price of global oil, I believe that to implement the law at this time will be disastrous to the poor. - Miriam Defensor Santiago

This study demonstrates that the pre-20th century atmosphere was essentially devoid of the long-lived gases currently depleting stratospheric ozone. It underscores the human contribution to these gases in the atmosphere and the need for compliance with current international agreements to bring the atmosphere back to pre-ozone hole conditions. - James Butler

This is an ideal time to float shares and take advantage of stratospheric valuations in Saudi Arabia. - Joe Kawkabani

Its current stratospheric performance is a combination of three factors -- strong fundamentals, a rampant commodities sector, with most base and all precious metals at multi-year or all-time highs, and massive investor interest led by the Japanese. - Paul Merrick

It does fit in with [Fed Chairman Alan] Greenspan's perception that we're past the peak of consumer spending binge. He doesn't want consumer spending to be slow, but he wanted it to back off from stratospheric levels. - David Orr

ICF Consulting is proud to have been selected for this work. We have supported EPA's stratospheric ozone protection programs for almost two decades, and our staff is professionally and personally committed to reducing emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals. - Mark Wagner

For the past six months we've all been wondering when consumers would come back down to earth from their stratospheric orbit. It looks like it's finally happened. - David Orr

[For investors, tech stocks have always been wobbly, with their stratospheric price-to-earnings ratios and fluid business plans -- now they're starting to careen, mostly downward, with regularity, and other bets are only getting better.] The higher interest rates go, the more lucrative bonds and T-Bills are... When 30-year bond yields get over 7 percent, with absolutely no risk, money gets shifted out of the techs and put elsewhere. - Bernard Baumohl