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And since it could be preserved and stockpiled, these essential nutrients could be eaten throughout scarce famines and long winters.
See, whenever people would benefit from gaining access to something that scarce, this makes corruption attractive.
But in many of those countries, economic opportunity is scarce, and so corruption becomes an attractive way to gain wealth.
I mean, admission into elite colleges is scarce, and so bribery becomes attractive.
The thing is, I'm not trying to say there shouldn't be things that are scarce in society or things that are selective.
And in most poor countries, way too many basic things are scarce.
We believe that where the resources and expertise are scarce, innovative, sustainable design can really make a difference in people's lives.
Number two: a declining population means scarce labor.
It's not like scarce objects, where sharing means we each get less.
In areas where access to good primary and secondary education are limited and employment opportunities are scarce, a small skill base is inevitable.
And it is largely an issue that we've created for ourselves through unsustainable use of scarce resources.
Time is scarce, so what do we do?
Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of Utopian ideals can be a burden, because you know that if everything were free, then the food stocks would become depleted and scarce and lead to chaos.
As more countries which used to be more water rich are becoming water scarce, I say we don't need to reinvent the wheel.
Girls get aborted before they're even born when there are scarce resources.
You need to use scarce resources.
It is the ultimate scarce resource, the one planet that we share.
When it has a scarce resource that it wants to turn into a desirable outcome, it thinks in terms of efficiency.
And so in strict happy-planet methodology, we've become less efficient at turning our ultimate scarce resource into the outcome we want to.
Poor-taste humor has two elements -- poor taste and humor -- and both are needed here, but the humor is pretty scarce.
After getting thrown out of their last job and finding employment scarce in the United Kingdom, the six members of the Wonder Boys, better known as The Crazy Gang see an advertisement for employment in the gold strike town of Red Gulch in the Yukon Territory.
Entering the war, Britain virtually started from scratch, with scarce supplies and with an air force that was outnumbered by Germany ten to one.
Although the movie borrows from a lot of other movies, despite shoddy camerawork, and despite being "loud" at times, it remains one of the scarce "funny" movies Bombay has come up with after movies like Padosan, Golmal and other Amol Plaekar movies.
The laughs were rather scarce here.
The film carries a bit of cheesy '80s appeal, but its worthy moments become increasingly scarce as it fills out its overlong 100-minute running time.
Laughs are scarce and, while the cartoon is just about saved by Clampett's energetic direction, there is very little at all to recommend 'Porky's Poor Fish' over any of the other below-par early Porky cartoons.
Makes it seem so cheap.All in all an embarrassing movie for Romanian cinema as well as for mature audiences attempting to view it.I know the means are scarce but, that is not always an excuse for a movie flopping as this one does.And please start using some good actors in your movies and stop recycling them from musicians (Tudor Chirila) - they can't act!
Too many warrior-wizard movies out there have used the same old plotline numerous times over, but this is mighty scarce considering its appeal to the little darlings.
The majority of Stephen King's short stories are little gems, with original ideas that don't take a long time to develop; basically lean and mean--he sets them up quickly in a scarce number of pages, you read 'em, and you're finished before you know you've begun.
Grand Canyon falls under a very scarce category: it is a very clever film, with very clever dialogs and food for thought everywhere from start to end.
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