31.   The market, in rough equilibrium, is marvelously efficient at allocating precious material resources.

32.   The news that Bush will spend so much here is bad for McCain, who will have to spend precious resources that ought to be his for the taking.

33.   The result, he said, is wasted spending that drains precious resources from defense and other important programs.

34.   The waste of precious resources can be troubling.

35.   They have one precious resource and some other serviceable entities.

36.   Time has become a precious resource for most women, the majority of whom work outside the home.

37.   Without resorting to such official strictures, the classical-music industry might ponder similar measures to protect the precious resource of its youngest talent.

38.   --You cannot tell that children are our most precious resource by how we pay child-care workers.

39.   And may be we have more precious resources in reserve for us.

40.   And they deserve to be treated as a precious resource threatened with extinction.