Councils allocate housing on the basis of need, with those considered to have low priority potentially waiting a very long time to get a property.
Once places reserved for those in local authority care and siblings of existing pupils have been allocated - the majority of schools allocate places on the basis of proximity to the school.
Funding bodies, such as the World Bank, and donor countries may make decisions to allocate countries based on their income status.
The best thing markets can do is move on from that starting point, using property rights to allocate scarce goods based on consumer sovereignty.
Quotas force firms either to pad their boards with token non-executive directors, or to allocate real power on the basis of sex rather than merit.
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In January Philips began consolidating 400 servers into two data centers that can allocate storage space on-the-fly to those departments that need more without having to buy more disk drives.
Indeed, investors allocate capital based on presumed returns.
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This requires attention to both sides of the transaction, working to improve our ability to identify, evaluate and grow promising solutions and also increasing the willingness and ability of funders to allocate growth capital based on performance and impact.
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Education officials in San Francisco will now focus on measures of economic hardship to allocate places in schools, rather than explicitly focusing on race.
At the moment, each council makes a decision on how much to allocate to each portfolio - education, transport, waste, social services and so on.
Discussion will continue in coming months on how to allocate those funds, said Ms Cox.
By relying on tried and tested mechanics, DoubleBear seems to be making a good call on where they allocate their assets.
And, he has refused to ask Congress to provide government agencies with discretion on how to allocate the spending cuts in order to minimize disruption to the American people.
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Streaming is where the growth lies and Netflix wants to focus on this and properly allocate resources.
House Appropriations undertook the job of interacting with the Washington bureaucracies on precisely how to allocate all this money.
Mr. Obama's plan calls for a new "federal-state partnership" that would allocate preschool funds to states based on the number of low and moderate-income four-year olds.
Companies typically allocate the majority of its resources on personnel.
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Participants at the High Level Group meeting on Education for All (EFA), organized by UNESCO and the Government of Norway, today urgently called on national governments to allocate at least four to six per cent of GNP and 15 to 20 per cent of public expenditure to education.
We should focus pragmatically, not ideologically, on what actions will best allocate capital for the creation of real jobs.
The broadcaster said it had already started to allocate funds which would have been spent on Big Brother into new drama.
This would better reflect economic theory, which tells us that absent any failures a market will efficiently allocate goods, services, and capital on a local and global level.
Data integration and management strategies are also needed to measure Hispanic buying power and trends in their behavior as consumers so that companies can allocate resources properly and measure their return on investment.
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Those who have the money obviously have the ability to determine on what basis they will allocate it, and there are no assurances that these factors will change, even if the body of evidence is dramatically improved.
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In the Richmond case, the new primary school will allocate a third of places to people on the basis of closeness to the school, not on religion, and for the remaining places, priority will be given to baptised Catholics.
The clocks that count down rather than up and the use of penalty kicks to decide regular season matches may be gone, but MLS still insists on using a draft to allocate a good number of domestic players amongst its teams and a playoff system to decide its eventual champion.
Currently, two writers from each of the 14 American League cities will name up to 10 ball players and allocate a weighted point system to each spot on the ballot where the names of the candidates appear.
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The courts would allocate to women a percentage of household assets based on what they decided she reasonably needed.
In order to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and allocate scare capital more judiciously, Vale has embarked on a program to sell a number of non-core assets.
Instead, allocate your assets for the long-term based on your financial need, and select low-cost index funds and ETFs to capture the returns of asset classes you select.
On average, multi-millionaire investors allocate 25 percent of their investable assets to alternative investments, which also include real estate investment trusts, commercial real estate and collectibles, Spectrem said.
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