51.  Economics, by definition, is the study of how whole societies allocate scarce resources.

52.  Georgia and its sister states may have to begin thinking of water as a scarce resource in the same way that Western states such as California do.

53.  Given scarce resources, we would keep as much space as possible for the animals without a prior record.

54.  His frenetic style proves that suddenly being on the A-list of designers makes downtime a scarce resource.

55.  In an age of suddenly scarce resources, though, he insisted that Congress must adjust its spending attitudes.

56.  In households where women control resources, they prefer to invest scarce resources in child well-being.

57.  In Rwanda, trials have been postponed repeatedly because of administrative foul-ups and scarce resources.

58.  In the competition for very scarce resources, people must take precedence over animals.

59.  In some cities, competing hospitals have even made separate disaster plans that sometimes banked on the same scarce resources, like the available temporary nurses.

60.  In this trade, Second Harvest sees competition for a scarce resource.