61.  In short, the apparatchik played the role that pricing plays today, allocating scarce resources.

62.  In the new economy we are learning here how to use scarce resources efficiently.

63.  Inspectors are overwhelmed by the volume of imports and scarce resources for inspecting tens of thousands of processing centers, the critics say.

64.  It can also absorb scarce resources that might otherwise be used for development.

65.  It could weaken economic development and democracy by diverting scarce resources from civilian needs.

66.  It is often claimed that the wars of the future will result from rapidly rising populations fighting over increasingly scarce resources, such as water and land.

67.  It is a handy mathematical tool for maximizing the use of some scarce resource.

68.  It was a difficult concept for doctors whose careers largely had been defined by making do with scarce resources.

69.  Jeff Passarelli, a wholesale florist from Oregon, said that scarce resources also put small business people at a disadvantage in legal battles over land use.

70.  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked whether a hospital, trying to allocate a scarce resource, could choose to deny homosexuals access to a kidney dialysis machine.