But these have not been motivated by resource nationalism.
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Even normally cautious bodies like the International Energy Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are sounding the alarm, with the latter recently releasing a comprehensive report forecasting a world in 2050 that will be defined by resource constraint and its economic impacts.
Speculation runs rampant in commodity exchanges, stoked by political turmoil and conflict in many oil-producing states and by "resource nationalism" emboldened by the high prices .
Fifteen percent of large corporations offer some form of backup day care, up from only 8% in 1993, according to a 1997 study by human resource consultants Hewitt Associates.
If given the choice of only being able to move one application to the cloud, most respondents would choose storage (25%), followed by enterprise resource planning applications to manage HR, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and project management systems (20%).
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While the birds are welcomed by natural-resource managers and bird lovers, they represent an inconvenience to many others.
New guns, in particular, were recently made available for sale by the microtransaction resource system in Dead Space 3.
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During the recent commodities' boom, resource-rich countries have sought to escape the curse by pouring natural-resource income into sovereign-wealth funds (SWFs).
In most fisheries, the fishermen would make more money by husbanding their resource, and it should be possible to incentivise them to do so.
As you look for any new job opportunity, remember that a job posting is only a company's attempt to increase its profits by adding a resource.
According to a new survey of 800 large and mid-size employers by the human resource consultancy arm of Aon, 83% offer employees incentives in wellness programs.
Meanwhile, a report by the Education Resource Center says that, in general, medical schools tend to have the highest crime rates, while two-year undergraduate schools have the lowest.
Simmering tensions peaked this month when South Sudan seized the oil-producing region of Heglig from Sudan, raising the stakes by targeting a resource that fuels the economies of both nations.
According to the 2007 National Business Ethics Survey conducted by the Ethics Resource Center, more than half of employees witnessed an act of misconduct in their company within the past year.
The recent energy bill opened the door to this resource by directing Interior to conduct a complete inventory of reserves along the shelf, including the use of cutting-edge 3-D seismic imaging techniques.
According to the congressional report, China plans to more than double its renewable energy resource by 2020, is rapidly expanding nuclear power, which despite fears in the wake of the Japanese situation, is the cleanest method of producing power.
It could wind down because the atmosphere-, land-, and water-based ecosystems that provide both tangible necessities and myriad unseen benefits become degraded. or maybe we ourselves will attempt to restrain the growth spiral by preemptively limiting resource consumption and curbing climatic and ecological disruption.
Social Intelligence Corp. is essentially taking the traditional background checks that are commonly used by corporate human resource departments to look for things like criminal records and moving them online to track social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, LinkedIn, and individual blogs.
With at least a one hundred year reserve of domestic shale gas in America, a huge price difference between natural gas and diesel or gasoline, and the opportunity for significant energy security benefits offered by a domestic resource, businesses, consumers and governments have realized the need to incorporate natural gas into the national transportation mix.
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This is best resolved by the vigorous application of tight, cash-limited, tax-financed global budgets and improvements in resource allocation by doctors and managers.
Another debate will stress the benefits brought by another easily-overlooked resource - the almost 2, 000 whole or part-time hospital chaplains provided by the Church.
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You can protect yourself, to a degree, by owning shares of resource companies.
Loggers, represented by the American Forest Resource Council, also sued the Forest Service--because the plan didn't propose harvesting or replanting nearly enough trees.
Large resource acquisitions by general trading companies were the largest additions.
After that high point in the bidding war, the government continued to dump spectrum on the market and the value of the resource plummeted by as much as 85%, according to Herschel Shosteck, who heads telecommunications market research firm Herschel Shosteck Associates in Wheaton, Md.
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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The Walcher campaign responded by pointing out that the candidate's natural resource and water policies had been endorsed by such prominent Republicans as McInnis and Sen.
Montana officials are continuing to investigate the natural resource damages caused by the Silvertip spill.
States are looking at programs to help cut their deficits by using prisoners, untapped resource, as cheap labor.
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