The first of these is limited in supply and the other two consume precious resources, like crude oil, indirectly.
Now America is just one country among many competing for these precious resources.
Disputes over control of hard currency revenue streams and precious resources like oil, gas, gold, diamonds, platinum must be expected.
When politicians prop up failing firms or resurrect dying industries, they trap precious resources in arrangements focused to the old market realities.
Various nations that, whether by inadvertence or a conscious desire to hoard precious resources, are locking up much of their potential oil production.
Had the city followed through on its broken-windows policing, it would have concentrated precious resources in marginal neighborhoods rather than in those with the highest crime.
Secondly, if we are to protect these precious resources and the ecosystems in which these are found, we shall have to exploit them in a sustainable manner.
But precious resources would be freed that could be spent elsewhere, for instance in cracking down on the use of multiple identities to commit welfare and credit-card fraud.
It then describes a range of technical, legal, organizational, economic, training and cooperation tools that can help improve the knowledge and management of these precious resources (Part II).
So what you're trying to do there is make sure that you are placing your bets on your most likely winners and that you don't waste precious resources.
If plastics recycling isn't taking off, that's in part because scrap plastic isn't worth much--and it isn't worth much because handling it consumes gobs of labor, energy and other precious resources.
They spoke not only about the need to find alternatives to traditional energy sources, but whether there'll ever be a concerted effort in developed countries to conserve rather than consume precious resources.
In another word, Apple knows whats Apple has in the pipeline and the new stuff will render everything else obsolete but Apple must wait for its competitor to have expended precious resources before Apple can show the cards Apple is holding.
With so many turtles in danger at our beaches, there are precious few resources to help them.
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As a result, CIOs can capture cost-savings, run more efficient clouds, and free up precious IT resources.
The FCC is the gatekeeper of this most precious of resources, and often chooses to condition its availability on a variety of terms.
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What needs to be done to protect our precious water resources?
How do we ensure access to precious water resources for a growing population whilst ensuring the future protection of the very ecosystems upon which we depend?
In its legal submissions, the US justice department argues that because Afghanistan is an active combat zone it is not possible to conduct rigorous inquiries into individual cases and that it would divert precious military resources at a crucial time.
And there could be a multiplier in respect of the creation of credit - because when banks lend via this form of so-called asset-backed finance, they are allowed by the capital-adequacy rules to allocate half as much of their precious capital resources as when providing overdraft loans.
While conducting examinations stemming from the annoying interference of consumers, who waste precious economic resources by filing complaints and seeking redress for mere misunderstandings, as well as in doing other unnecessary snooping on their own, the CFPB says it will forward its findings to states attorney generals.
The decline in wagering dollars leaves racetracks in a curious position: use precious financial resources to upgrade the on-track experience, or recognize that big crowds at racetracks are a thing of the past, and cater instead to the off-site bettor, whose gambling funds the purses and the salaries that permit the racetrack to exist?
They have vast arable land for agriculture, large rainforests that play a crucial role in combating global warming, great biodiversity, abundant renewable energy resources, enormous reserves of fresh water and precious marine and coastal resources.
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Are they rendering valuable services or are they soaking up precious time and resources?
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Precious metals and natural resources, which were among the best performing sectors last year, have been among the worst performers this year.
Clearly, the price of natural resources and precious metals had gotten ahead of the actual growth of 1.8%, the weak housing and jobs picture, and attempts by India and China to slow their growth engines.
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He will continue to try and keep Afghanistan out of the news, and he will quickly seek to reallocate precious financial and military resources from the region to other locations, especially East Asia and the Persian Gulf.
How feasible is it to implement ongoing interventions with precious few extra people, resources, and time in each school?
Commodities, such as oil, agricultural resources, and precious metals, like gold and silver, will all be big winners in this negative real rate environment.
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