We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity.

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They must carefully balance the risk and complexity of each deal with its strategic importance, put a significant amount of resource and effort into vetting the deal, and exercise extreme diligence in planning and executing the integration.

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Every single organization that is dedicated to digital should be spending the majority of their time, effort and resource optimizing for smart phones and various tablets.

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Without revealing confidences, there was discussions in these meetings about the fact that we were talking about a resource -- an effort that had been under-resourced for quite some time.

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In the wake of the first Gulf War, the U.S. Army assessed Saudi Arabia's solar energy resource potential in a classified effort to determine how oil fires had affected the region.

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Resource Capital decided to lead the effort, which ended up including Traxys, Goldman Sachs and Pegasus Capital Advisors, just as prices for rare earth elements tumbled.

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"PLM has been perceived as a big, expensive technology akin to an ERP-scale effort, " she says, referring to enterprise resource planning, another alphabet-soup software that tries to unite a company's operations on one computer system.

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The two leaders with me today will ensure that this is matched by a historic effort that extends beyond our government, because America has no greater resource than the strength and the compassion of the American people.

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And I think he's actually got a good resource base of donors that are willing and probably will give money for both the transition effort, but also the inaugural campaign as well, " said David Lewis, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and author of "The Politics of Presidential Appointments.

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