But they have found that by collaborating and pooling resources, especially during disaster responses, they can more effectively and efficiently deliver food, water, healthcare, and other services to more people.
Mr Shapps urged councils to save money and protect front line services by cutting executive pay and pooling activities.
The larger your energy network, the better you can deal with the fundamental problems of cyclical power like solar and intermittent sources like wind, by pooling available energy and getting it to the users when needed.
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Many are tempted to join producer-owned co-operatives, where farmers can make higher profits by pooling resources and cutting out middlemen.
By pooling their money and following an aggressive investment strategy, 43 of the descendants of the Commodore's great-great-grandson William A.M.
Some like Ushahidi allow citizenry to define collective action simply by pooling individual action and behavior through collective intelligence and crowdsourcing.
The Conference proposed a number of strategies including training and pooling of resources by media houses to cover complex and time-consuming stories.
So Germany is being urged to stand behind the euro by accepting the pooling of sovereign debt and collective action to shore up the banking system.
They try to make up for their low individual incomes by pooling family resources to buy houses and small businesses.
It has enabled them to tighten their collective controls by pooling information in a single computer and by getting their customs police to co-operate.
In other words, they are a sort of savior-entity attempting to address the issue of scarcity and resource depletion by rescuing Earth (and Mars, as well as many other planets) from self-destruction by pooling our resources with a potentially unlimited number of other planets throughout the universe.
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By pooling resources, creating an administrative post and purchasing services such as handyman or home care as a group, these villages help people stay in their own homes longer.
The Latinos' way to a better life is to set up small businesses and buy their own houses (often by pooling the resources of their extended families) rather than relying on the public sector.
Although Britain is normally seen as an awkward customer in EU affairs, resisting deeper political integration, it has traditionally been rather open to European countries pooling their diplomatic and military clout on a case-by-case basis, to gain global influence.
So they end up pooling groups of people by such basic factors as age, occupation and postcode, which means that some low-risk customers are lumped in with risky ones and subsidise their cover.
Dr Yokota (and also Drs Lundeen and Steinberg) managed to observe them without looking, as it were, by not gathering enough information from any one interaction to draw a conclusion, and then pooling these partial results so that the total became meaningful.
The bargaining power of these countries will increase and they will be able to resist the Americanization of South Asian cultures, by pooling their resources to develop a huge cultural base that portrays Asian values.
Energy expert and occasional FORBES columnist Peter Huber has noted, "Pooling supply and demand nationwide will cut the average cost of generating electricity by 30% to 50%, " thereby making feasible green dreams of more electric vehicles.
An agreement in principle has been reached for eurozone banks to be policed by the ECB and - ultimately - supported and quarantined in the event of crisis through the pooling of "resolution" or rescue resources.
Pooling maximizes returns for all participants by allowing managers to invest in a more diversified portfolio and over a longer investment horizon.
She has been harangued by world leaders, attacked in print and lampooned on magazine covers for saying "nein" to the pooling of euro-zone debt while focusing instead on long-term reforms.
In a desperate and futile attempt to save the company, Skilling tried to inspire investor confidence by raising 200 million dollars, through pooling his money with funds from other top Enron executives.
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