If there were a price spike, we'd immediately see more sensible use of a temporarily scarce commodity.
Pro bono hours are a scarce commodity, and how lawyers choose to spend that time tells us a lot about them.
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She may never have made these friends were it not for the generosity of organ donors, but they are a scarce commodity.
From a business side, the players are not a scarce commodity.
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These leveraged plays on oil should still do well over the long-term because oil is a scarce commodity and larger fields are more difficult to discover.
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The chief implication: Food has become a relatively scarce commodity.
During the last five years, when undiscovered oil fields have become a scarce commodity, Africa has contributed one in every four barrels of new petroleum discovered outside North America.
Talent is a scarce commodity and if you're going to attract the best talent, you better be welcoming to people regardless of gender, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of sexual orientation.
In America today, a house in a safe neighborhood with good public schools featuring a convenient commute to the central business district of an economically vibrant city is a scarce commodity.
Thus there is a rarity value to being in the Big Leagues and thus some of the extra revenue can be and is abstracted by those who own that scarce commodity.
If, on the other hand, roads were priced like any other scarce commodity, better use would be made of existing space and the revenues raised could be used to improve public transport.
The conversation is always water is a human right and should be given to everyone free, or water is a scarce commodity and should be fully privatized, when, in truth, we have a world in which 1.3 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
One reason she highlighted was a fragmented and inefficient industry, whose firms competed not for customers by offering better homes or building them more cheaply but for that scarce British commodity, land with permission to develop.
This is what the government is about to do with another scarce, publicly owned commodity: Radio spectrum.
The profundity of this technological revolution is that in an age when our material needs (at least in rich countries) are largely met, the commodity that stands out as being most scarce is life-span itself.
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