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sker si tee

  • n  a small and inadequate amount

  • But the latest surge of suicide operations proves there is no scarcity of volunteers to become the most lethal weapon Iraq's insurgents have.
  • The country's economy is hemorrhaging: every week brings new announcements of massive layoffs, there is a severe scarcity of foreign currency, and businesses are failing across .
  • Experts at Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens pronounced the finding a new genus and decided to keep the trees' location secret, since poachers would value its scarcity and thus .
News & Articles

  • MemberSpeed Inc. Finally Announces Launch of New Software That Allows SMB’s to Compete Directly In Deal Making Against ...
    Easy Deal Buildersoftware is on course to democratize and streamline scarcity based, deal making on the Internet by offering a long awaited solution, for even the most budget minded small business owner. (PRWeb June 15, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10834039.htm
    June 15, 2013 - PRWeb
  • Glut of coffee beans on market
    By Alexandra Wexler and Leslie Josephs, Wall Street Journal When coffee prices climbed to multi-year highs in 2011 on a scarcity of high-quality beans, farmers revved up investments in their plants, adding fertilizer, pruning trees and planting more productive varieties. But the buzz didn’t last [...]
    June 15, 2013 - Lake Tahoe News
  • Planting & Fertilizing Machinery Market Analyzed & Forecast by GIA in Report Now Available at MarketPublishers.com
    Currently, the global demand for planting and fertilizing machinery demonstrates stable growth, driven mainly by the enhancing adoption of mechanized farming across the globe. Such factors as commodity prices, government subsides, farm income, credit availability, scarcity of farm labor and product innovations have a considerable influence on the development of the planting and fertilizing ...
    June 14, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
Quotes

  • Ban Ki-moon in Sydney Morning Herald
    UN Secretary, Ban Ki-Moon said 2008 had been a year of multiple shocks: "A food crisis, an economic crisis, an oil crisis, humanitarian disasters, earthquakes, wars, a scarcity of water and critical resources, he said. As we struggle, we must not...
  • Dirk Kempthorne in Central Florida News 13|
    It's easy to be gracious when you have a surplus,Kempthorne said. "It is far tougher in a time of scarcity."
  • Claudio Hummes in Washington Post
    Hummes said that among a recent gathering of bishops, "the most widely held opinion was that loosening the rule on celibacy would not be a solution, not even to the problem of the scarcity of vocations, which is to be linked, rather, to other...

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