Other oil companies did a better job of coping with the scarcity of new oilfields.
In other words, scarcity of any important commodity or natural resource increases the scarcity of others.
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The intuition behind the theory is nonetheless compelling, which makes the scarcity of policy prescriptions frustrating.
Span of life is the scarcity that will govern human interactions and consumer businesses.
In Scrabble or Words with Friends, the scarcity are the few letters you are dolled out.
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But they all agree that the main barrier to growth is the scarcity of investment.
Boatloads of desperate Senegalese men still arriving illegally in Europe testify to the scarcity of decent jobs.
Poor public schools, and the scarcity of private ones, discourage people from coming to live in the area.
The scarcity of rain--10 inches in a good year--helps keep down plant diseases.
He cited as an example the scarcity of girls taking A-Level physics.
Bankers complain the scarcity of sponsors is creating a bottleneck for deal making in China and driving up banks' costs.
Another barrier to entry and innovation for alternative credit ratings models is simply the scarcity of data--in particular, identified defaults.
The church can no more afford to ignore the scarcity of priests than it can hide evidence of their bad behaviour.
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In an emergency situation, information about the scarcity and urgency of need for different goods and services is at a premium.
The reason why the NFL is much more dramatic on a game-to-game basis is the scarcity of games relative to other sports.
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Circumstantial evidence that what Wakeem is doing is much harder than it looks: the scarcity of market-beating mutual funds with covered-call strategies.
While China attempts to maintain its dominance of the world markets for these metals, the scarcity of REs is compounded by smuggling.
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Add to these the scarcity of capital and a prolonged financial crisis.
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However, such innovative efforts only go so far and the scarcity persists.
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The percentage of gold is low due to both the scarcity of gold and unprecedented growth in other financial assets, the WGC said.
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In return, the borrower pays less than the going rate for its money, reflecting the scarcity of the bonds it is posting as collateral.
In a country that largely depends on food imports, the scarcity of dollars also led to shortages of products such as sugar and flour.
In the case of television, the scarcity of spectrum, and the expense of building a cable system, have been additional justifications for regulating ownership.
MSBs, however, the scarcity of government bonds makes it hard for the central bank to engage in open-market bond dealings to control the money supply.
Capital will therefore flow out (or fail to flow in) until the scarcity of capital pulls the after tax return up to the world return.
And that fuels the scarcity that underlies many substandard work environments.
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Investors who are bullish on the U.K. housing market also point to the scarcity of land in the U.K. and to an overall shortage of housing.
One reason for the scarcity of long-distance drivers is that air travel became affordable and convenient for many urban residents before car ownership began to grow.
However, the full promise of organ transplantation has been stultified with many potential recipients dying while on the waiting list because of the scarcity of organs.
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