When information is plentiful, the scarce resource is attention.

The information passed to my Office is scarce and unconvincing.

When information is scarce and unevenly distributed, prices may well depart from the reality of fundamentals.

When food is scarce, people share.

Conflict is increasing as communities compete for scarce resources.

It is almost enough to have one longing again for the day when information was a scarce resource and one had to go out to find it.

Resources are scarce.

The same is true for ground water. Land is also increasingly scarce.

People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs. They are befriending one another, sharing information, and accumulating status, points, and experiences.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Our resources are scarce.

Evidence for prevalence of pain in newly diagnosed cancer is scarce.

Hard Wisdom for Scarce Water

Twenty percent of global GDP already is produced in water scarce areas.

Waste combustion is particularly popular in countries such as Japan where land is a scarce resource.

At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.

The problems we see in the financial markets have very much to do with lack of good information, misaligned incentives, and, in fact, rational responses to the environment. When information is scarce and unevenly distributed, prices may well depart from the reality of fundamentals.

This is the result of scarce financial resources, which should provide for better work conditions.

In Africa and the Middle East, while information on drug abuse is scarce, regional expertise confirms an increase in the abuse of cannabis and some evidence of increase in the abuse of heroin and ATS.

It never sold in numbers comparable to the Game Boy or even the Watara Supervision, and as a result information on the console and its games remains scarce.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

However, all inductive reasoning where data is too scarce for statistical relevance is inherently based on anecdotal evidence.

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

Capitalism is, among other things, a struggle between individual people over the control of scarce resources.

But evidence of any consistent use of precious commodities to support Al Qaida terrorism is scarce.

Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.

People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs.

This would help reduce consumption of scarce natural resources.

In Germany, food was scarce, but only 5 died.

Leaders time is a scarce resource. They cannot afford to attend multiple summits for each transnational issue.

Even at their best, all job boards do is allocate scarce talent resources they don t create them.

Surface water is scarce in Botswana and less than 5 of the agriculture in the country is sustainable by rainfall.

Scarce resources must not be diverted from their intended purposes and the Secretariat's next budget submission should provide the Advisory Committee and Member States with detailed information on the Mission's activities.

Things have value when they are both desirable and scarce.

Other than peat, dolomite, and limestone, natural resources are scarce.

This is particularly useful to small countries which have scarce human and financial resources to draft individual laws.

Equity is not scarce for viable banks, and the science of complex risk weights and stress tests is a harmful illusion.

The international agencies have an ongoing practice of sharing information on future technical assistance events and seminars on trade in services in order to avoid duplication and combine scarce resources, where appropriate.

Desalination of salt water is another capital intensive option, which is used particularly in water scarce areas and for high value uses.

Society would be spending scarce resources on losers rather than winners.

Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II.

Of course, this is a fallacy when resources are scarce, but even economists never thought that growth would continue forever.

It can be argued that the sophisticated loan packages created by banks in recent years are, likewise, a new and unknown product, so information and experience to aid pricing has been scarce and dispersed.

Expansions usually start collapsing when labor gets too scarce and too expensive.

With resources so scarce, developing countries cannot afford the luxury of such waste.