What is far more important is how they work with scarce resources, with ambition and with eagerness to learn from one other.
It must compete for scarce resources with the economy's need for food, shelter and myriad alternatives.
At present, the billions of dollars spent on some of the intelligence and defense cyber programs are in direct competition for the already scarce resources with those defending enterprise networks.
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That's right: If investors had purchased a scarce metal with very limited industrial uses ten years ago they would have wildly outperformed an index loaded with America's most promising companies.
The expansion of copper and gold mining in Chile and Peru has mainly occurred in arid areas and has led to competition for scarce water with both export agriculture and the needs of the indigenous population.
The Government of Kenya, which is hosting the meeting, said that while the country is still considered a water-scarce country with only water per capita of about 647m3 per year, studies are showing that Kenya has up to 60 billion cubic metres of groundwater potential that needs to be located.
So, as public funding for big capital projects takes a hit from the decade of austerity now under way, and with scarce capital taken up more often with major transport priorities, what do you think should be put in the pipeline for the next grand projects that will define modern Scotland?
Trouble is, the bank since 2009 has been losing money and with scarce prospects for improvement cannot pay dividends.
Desalination technology has historically been more widely embraced by countries with scarce water resources, such as the Middle East.
In a world with scarce safe assets, stable emerging market economies may be making the asset class a new safe haven.
With scarce native freshwater supplies, Iannelli says the oil-rich nation spends hundreds of million of dollars a year purifying coastal seawater.
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But the Enron conviction, achieved with scarce direct evidence of fraud, might indicate that white-collar crime is becoming more like the rats in the warehouse.
Think about it: ideally, we would like a sustainability metric that penalized people for the use of scarce resources, with the penalty increasing the scarcer the resources become.
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The removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, either through the enhancement of natural weathering processes or direct capture from ambient air are further examples, as well as the enhancement of oceanic CO2 uptake through ocean fertilisation with scarce nutrients or the enhancement of upwelling processes.
Jobs are scarce: even those with degrees are working as secretaries or taxi drivers.
This is what the government is about to do with another scarce, publicly owned commodity: Radio spectrum.
But it has more to do with the scarce choices available to domestic banks, the only permitted bidders.
The profit is going to those with the scarce resource, the processing capacity.
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Farmland is so scarce that a peasant with one acre is considered rich.
With grass scarce, hay prices became too costly, forcing some ranchers to feed their cattle a mixture of prickly pear cactus and molasses.
Offsetting that: Earnings will disappoint for a while, and capital will remain scarce for any corporation with less than an investment-grade credit rating.
Cargo space, which is usually a hallmark of hatchback models, is scarce, however, with just 10.6 cubic feet of it behind the rear seats.
Matt Damon makes enough of his scarce, terse exchanges with Nicky and Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) to suggest remorse spurs him more than revenge.
Charging motorists for scarce road space, with most of the revenues being used to finance improvements in bus, rail or urban mass-transit systems, is the only sensible route to restraint.
It hasn't quite turned out that way, and, as the American money evaporated, the banks that once outbid each other for scarce staff are left with huge costs and massive overcapacity.
When she was 13, with food scarce and every child's hands needed to work the family plot, her mother sold the family cow to pay for Wambugu's boarding school 10 miles away.
When she was 13, with food scarce and every child's hands needed to work the family plot, her mother sold the family cow to pay for Wambugu's boarding school 16 kilometers away.
For now, with land so scarce, Monaco's new housing inventory comes in small packages.
With money so scarce, prices on the Exchange were headed into a tailspin.
They rely increasingly on volunteers: several say that more young people are knocking on their doors these days, with paying jobs scarce.
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