Like any good gambler though, opponents of this critical resource development have an ace in the hole.
Markets are flows of resources and increasingly the most critical resource is information.
Overall, we find that reliable merchant banking is a scarce and critical resource that, when targeted carefully, is highly fragile to disruption.
The colonial government kept control of a critical resource: land.
They argue that this is a critical economic resource for a people that don't have much else.
In the last year or so, a third critical human resource has been added to the mix: food.
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They argue that this is a critical economic resource for a people that do not have much else.
The broadcasting lobby may be extremely powerful and vocal, but they do not get to make the ultimate determination of how Americans use this critical national resource.
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Because we boast one critical, renewable resource that the rest of the world can't match: American ingenuity.
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By separating critical components from one another, each computer resource can be upgraded on its own cadence without being coupled to the others.
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At the same time, the current helium shortage calls for creativity to ensure that this resource is available for its many critical uses across the commercial, medical, electronic, fiber optics and defense industries.
And face it, the world suffers overall resource scarcity, and shortages of any critical commodity (like water) translate into scarcity of them all.
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The company is fully aware that, unlike oil, the most critical aspect of natural gas distribution is not the resource itself, but rather the pipelines through which the gas is transported.
Mountain regions, particularly in tropical regions where they are prime human habitat, are increasingly threatened by climate change, demographic pressure, and economic development that in many cases lead to resource depletion and degradation, hindering the provision of critical goods and services to both mountain inhabitants and lowland communities.
Finally, resource management, particularly among the suppliers, will be critical.
But such information is critical to calculating how much a company needs to invest to avoid harming the resource.
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