1.   There the principal threat to the diversity of fish has been competition with man for scarce supplies of water.

2.   And would Nintendo, the new owner of the Mariners, ship home-run hitters back to Osaka, where power-hitting is in scarce supply?

3.   Added to the fact that these securities are still in scarce supply, they tend to command high prices.

4.   But others argue that wages no longer respond as they once did to a scarce supply of workers.

5.   By combining, JDS and SDL executives say they can shift around scarce supplies and people and boost capacity to keep up with skyrocketing demand.

6.   Clutch hits are in very scarce supply.

7.   Corn for delivery before the next harvest surged amid strong demand for scarce U.S. supplies.

8.   Demand for the new issues was bolstered by the relatively scarce supply of new bonds and by easing concern about inflation, traders said.

9.   Facilities are shabby, supplies scarce and teacher quality uneven.

10.   Many traders face longer trips to work and a scarce supply of parking spaces.