"There is a finite amount of resources - which means a more frequent service in one place leads to a less frequent service somewhere else, " she said.

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We need to allocate finite medical resources cost-effectively.

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This all seemed fine for a while, but now many Texans, and even the editors of the New York Times-who put the news on page one on June 13-are astonishedly discovering that educational resources are finite, and the boost for weak students is sending numerous first-rate students to colleges out of the state.

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Make tough choices and difficult trade-offs that will deploy finite resources toward new behaviors, processes and practices (and away from older, less strategic areas).

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Public-opinion surveys have shown that a queue is regarded as the least-worst way to deal with non-urgent cases given the finite resources of a publicly funded health service.

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And precisely because it's real -- and we've got finite resources.

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In order to counter these attacks they will be looking for ways to invest their finite resources. 80% of respondents believe that the enterprise could benefit from adopting a military-style approach learned from physical battlefields.

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There will always be vulnerabilities along a 26-mile route, and police will always have to make decisions about how to deploy their finite resources.

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