Middlemen were supposed to fall victim to the arrival of semiautomated and information-rich global supply chains.
Such skin absorption occurs in other mammals, and the leathery look of elephant skin is deceptive it actually has a rich blood supply.
If the poor countries adopt the farming and food supply networks that the rich countries currently use then much less food will be wasted.
Megamergers like Vodaphone's bid to buy Mannesmann in telecom and Glaxo Wellcome's embrace of SmithKline Beecham in drugs are reducing the supply of big, rich companies that can pay Spencer Stuart's hefty fees.
The workers needed a stable food supply, and the area was rich in wild species like aurochs and einkorn, one of the ancestors of domesticated wheat.
Count hydropower, biomass, tidal, geothermal, waste-to-energy, solar and wind, and you have only 6.1% of the rich world's energy supply in 1995.
Uncertainty over the situation in Saudi Arabia has rattled markets in recent weeks, as fears that social unrest could spread to the oil-rich kingdom could cause substantial supply disruptions and derail the global economic recovery.
On taking office Mr Jonathan vowed to fix three of Nigeria's biggest problems: electoral fraud, a woefully unreliable electricity supply and a violent insurgency in the oil-rich southern Delta.
Put together Mongolian supply and Chinese demand, and Mongolia will be rich beyond the wildest dreams of a population many of whom, a generation ago, saw themselves as nomadic herders.
It has been brought about by supply-side economics, tax cuts for the rich paired with reductions in services for middle America, outsourcing jobs, and deregulation of the financial and polluting industries.
In agriculture emerging governments restricted supply, aggravating the problems caused by demand in the rich world.
Abundant and unhindered energy supply is perhaps the single most important element that separates rich from poor countries.
More domestic supply, which means quick assurance that Congress will open gas-rich acreage on the Outer Continental Shelf.
The world's dominant retailer has been facing a tidal wave of negativity--from community activists trying to keep its stores out of their neighborhoods, to local governments mandating that Wal-Mart supply workers with health insurance, to opportunistic lawyers trying to strike it rich by bringing on endless lawsuits.
Assume that these numbers are fair according to the economics of supply and demand, but now the government is going to single out the rich to pay more taxes and relieve the middle class of paying their fair share.
Although several drug companies have agreed to supply the drugs to African countries at manufacturing cost (the price in the rich world factors in development costs as well), that is still beyond the purse of any but the middle classes in Africa.
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With fresh water, we are working hard to establish biodiversity priorities and to demonstrate how incredibly important biologically rich, intact natural systems like rain forests are in ensuring a continued supply of clean water to human societies.
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Its idle rich gave him lucrative commissions, while the mob provided constant stimulation and a plentiful supply of models.
In this it was even ahead of Boeing and Airbus, both now scrambling to transform themselves from rich-world exporters into global producers, with long, difficult-to-manage supply chains spanning the world.
But the super-rich are busy trying to turn old brownstones around Gramercy Park into single-occupancy houses and the supply of people who want to live in Manhattan seems inexhaustibly great.
In 2008 a still-growing rich world and a boom in developing countries pushed demand for oil and food up against the limits of supply.
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