That price tag reflects a serious problem of supply and demand.
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But the third argument put forward by those who say we can't control immigration is that immigration is not just a problem of supply but of demand.
So the most recent, tiny remnant of the old gold standard (the Bretton Woods System only applied to international exchanges, it had no domestic impact on the US or other nations) did indeed collapse for exactly the problem of the supply of gold.
The problem of matching supply and demand will worsen as utilities increase the supply of green energy under mandates like California's, which requires 20% renewable electricity by 2010.
The combination of still-high bank charges and shrinking loans suggests the problem lies with the supply of credit not demand for it, says Kevin Daly at Goldman Sachs.
As the world's human population grows, so will the problem of the global food supply.
Living longer, and retiring early, might not be a problem if the supply of workers were increasing.
The problem was not one of supply, Posen suggested, but rather of demand.
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Part of the reason is cost, of course, but there has also been a lack of a sense of immediacy to the problem because of various schemes to stretch the supply of older IPv4 addresses, including sharing and recycling.
Indeed, the problem is not so much of supply as consumption.
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So is the problem the profit seeking of those who supply us with energy?
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Researchers at the National Cancer Institute first discovered paclitaxel's promise in 1963, but it never inspired much enthusiasm among drug companies because of a looming supply problem.
The main problem of these successful entrepreneurs and the other weavers of Varanasi is lack of capital supply.
It believes the problem is bad in Britain because of cultural and supply reasons.
Of course that goes to the second part of the problem, interest rates and money supply.
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Yet if recordings are part of the problem, they may also help supply a solution.
The problem is in the creation of commensurate salable aggregate supply.
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However, tackling the problem from a supply chain angle represents one of the best means of cutting off a very substantial source of income (tens of millions of dollars per year according to our estimates) from abusive armed groups.
Even if supply is sorted out, the problem of distribution will remain.
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But he says the key problem is not the companies - it is the supply of land for development.
Compounding the problem, outsourcing leads to the fragmentation and disintegration of the supply chain, inviting new competitors into the industry, and undermining pricing power and profitability.
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These programs should not only help solve the supply problem but also assist in dispelling some of the confusion surrounding big data, some of which is caused by the unfortunate label of this simple idea that we should do something useful with all the data that we are creating, collecting, and consuming.
Shortages in the supply of school science teachers were also a problem.
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And to top it all off, the plan can't resolve the supply and demand problem that is at the core of the run-up in fuel prices.
Supply of labour is not likely to be a problem for service sites.
Lower tax rates for firms and workers are worthy long-term objectives, but today's problem of insufficient demand cannot be solved with measures designed largely to boost supply.
It believes the ISAAA report is misleading and contends that GM crops contribute to the problem of world hunger by increasing farmers' dependence on the companies that supply the seeds.
The biggest economic problem the U.S. faces is the gap between the supply of workers and the number of jobs that companies are creating.
In other words, the problem with corn, wheat, and soybean prices is the consequence of a supply shock, not a structural move in demand.
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There are pilot projects to do this in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique, but it will take time before the quantity and quality of their production can make a real dent in the supply problem.
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