People alive today will pass on a stock of exhaustible and other natural resources as well as machines, buildings and social institutions.

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One is that America has given credible warning that its patience is exhaustible: the alternative to disarmament by inspection is disarmament by force.

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These are important raw materials for the steel industry, among others, and China restricts their exports on the grounds that they are exhaustible resources.

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