Furthermore, consumer credit is becoming scarcer as banks anticipate a rise in bad loans.
Yet most are still more concerned that the economy could yet nosedive as credit becomes scarcer.
As cash becomes scarcer in Greece, more and more people turn to this kind of trade.
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In June and July this year, as foreign exchange became even scarcer, confidence collapsed.
And people with the skills to analyse data are scarce and will become scarcer.
Climate change, it says, will make food even scarcer in semi-arid countries such as Sudan.
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Roya is making some of the world's most desired coffee beans scarcer and driving up their prices.
However, funding for retiree health care and other benefits is even scarcer than it is for pensions.
In TV, airtime is a scarce resource, and quality programming is scarcer still, and expensive to create.
Since then, owners have considered new stadiums to be too much of a strain on their scarcer resources.
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Those are getting scarcer as buyers put a higher priority on gas mileage.
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It's about facing up to the truth that we are facing increased demands at a time of scarcer resources.
Hidden behind the exports, a new economic model is being born, signaling a more efficient allocation of scarcer capital.
But it hardly mattered for the Bobcats in a season where victories have been rare and winning streaks even scarcer.
For this reason, it is considered futile to attempt cloud seeding during a dry season, when moisture in the atmosphere is scarcer.
When we spend more money, we are using more, or scarcer resources.
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With resources around the globe becoming scarcer, competition for these resources tightens, and the risk of volatile costs or supply disruptions increases.
Central electric power plants, in particular, are highly dependent on vast quantities of cooling water that will become scarcer under climate change.
This time it seemed tired, frayed, with fewer families and scarcer employees.
That is unlikely to be the case with aluminium and zinc, supplies of which could become scarcer still before they get better.
Salaries are lower, culture markedly scarcer and jobs for educated spouses non-existent.
The rapid and total destruction the clones inflict on their hosts suggests that the phenomenon should peter out as African-honeybee hives become scarcer.
One question some art insiders are raising: With great impressionist and modern work ever scarcer, will the most activity come in contemporary art?
On the U.S. market, bay scallops are scarcer and cost a little more than sea scallops, and they are usually more delicate in taste.
Students head back to campus this fall facing greater challenges to pay for college expenses due to tuition hikes as well as scarcer financial resources.
Jobs for the young were getting scarcer even before the crash.
Bats prefer to roost in natural features like trees and caves, but as development has made those environments scarcer, some species have adapted to urban areas.
To the extent that this has made labour more abundant, and capital relatively scarcer, it has put downward pressure on wages relative to the return on capital.
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But as Dr Koza points out, processing power is becoming less expensive all the time, while human designers are becoming scarcer to find and costlier to keep.
But this only fanned the flames of discontent among Social Democratic supporters, who worry that the nuclear phase-out will simply make electricity costlier and jobs even scarcer.
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