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Since food is scarce in the film's world, Clapet has devised a scheme to provide himself and his tenants with a regular supply of meat--he runs ads in the local paper for handymen, and after they fix a few things on the building, they become the main course.
All of the acting was good - Jamie Hector(Paid In Full, HBO's The Wire) is VERY effective in his role as is the scarce Dean Winters(HBO's Oz) w/ some strong acting.
The movie was originally made for the Sci Fi channel and VHS copies were scarce and expensive to purchase, however you can pick them up on ebay from time to time.
The trio of main characters move in war-torn territory that comes off almost as another planet, where food is about as scarce as brain-cells are in Sean Penn's bloated head.
Charming it is but the comedy's scarce.
The humor was scarce but touching, the fawns a picture of innocence.
It is a dank, rather terrifying unspecified region of France, in a future when food is scarce and vegetarians reside below the surface like rats.
The problem essentially is the dire lack of funding and scarce distribution.
Anyway, the "Greek god in modern NYC" plot had comic potential to be sure but, despite the scarce felicities (Hercules is insulted on seeing an impostor posing as himself in a fictional sword-and-sandal flick playing in a movie theater), it is generally hopelessly squandered by the sheer amateurishness of it all.
People are being uprooted, and vital resources are becoming increasingly scarce, while those suffering the most severe consequences of climate change are also among those who have done the least to cause it.
As labor becomes increasingly scarce, employers and policymakers are being forced to think differently about sourcing talent.
A common election calendar for all EU member states would free up scarce resources and focus policymakers’ attention more effectively.
Information has been so scarce in Russia that Web sites such as tutu.ru
Meanwhile, hundreds of acres of scarce urban real estate will have been forfeited as sites for white elephants.
In India, as in other fast-growing economies, scarce public resources, such as land, minerals, oil and gas, and telecommunication spectrum, have shot up in market value recently, generating extremely high unearned income for the politically well-connected.
It is not just that global supplies of resources are increasingly scarce, but also that supplies are increasingly falling into inefficient hands.
Full anonymity explains why efficiency rules – say, leaving the most “expensive” patients untreated when resources are scarce – meet with no protest.
Yet protecting them may merely delay the inevitable, because the longer they are allowed to suck scarce resources out of the economy, the more unaffordable an arms race with the US will become – and the greater the challenge to the CPC’s authority will become.
But instead of implementing policies aimed at realizing that objective, governments continue not only to subsidize the fossil-fuel industry, but also to use scarce public resources to find new reserves.
For it to be useful, believers in scarce oil must be able to predict such things as the timing of the oil peak, the state of demand when oil production reaches it, and the pattern of decline.
Thailand’s ambassador pointed out that using the Copenhagen Consensus prioritization framework could help the UN to ensure better, more effective utilization of scarce resources in tackling top issues.
For their part, developed-country governments want private investors to fill the gap, arguing that scarce public funds could be used more effectively to leverage profit-seeking green finance.
What is scarce is attention, which depends on credibility – and government propaganda is rarely credible.
Given scarce resources, we must ask ourselves: do we want to do a lot of good now, or a little good much later?
Brazil has also developed a sophisticated system to track and record deforestation – though monitoring an area the size of Europe with scarce resources is by itself unlikely to lead to much compliance.
Bangladeshis – and people everywhere – deserve the most efficient allocation of scarce development resources that can be achieved.
People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs.
They are all caught between the problems of the present and the mistakes of the past: in Europe, between institutions designed to avoid inflation when the problem is growth and employment; in America, between massive household and government debt and the demands of fiscal and monetary policy; and everywhere, between America’s failure to use the world’s scarce natural resources wisely and its failure to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East.
Konzo is especially common in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, and Tanzania, and often follows droughts or conflicts, when food is scarce.
The financial sector, which typically pays more than most others, draws scarce high-level skills away from areas of the economy in which they may contribute more to productivity.
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