71.  Mindful of political vulnerabilities, she has steered scarce resources toward military procurement and ignored religious intolerance and persecution.

72.  More critically, it will help establish that at a time of scarce resources, children must be the absolute priority.

73.  Privatization has given the enterprises enormous incentives to find competent managers, to pay attention to consumer demand and to treat capital as a scarce resource.

74.  Russia continues to devote scarce resources to submarine modernization despite hard economic times.

75.  Scarce resources for the federal courts were increasingly being soaked up by criminal trials, sentencing hearings, post-sentencing matters and appeals.

76.  Scrubbers also depend on ample supplies of water, a scarce resource in the desert region of northern Mexico.

77.  Second, managed care requires that physicians be stewards of scarce resources like tests, procedures and their time.

78.  So allowing economic growth to continue unchecked will result in too much competition for scarce resources and a lot of inflation.

79.  So South Africans are growing increasingly resentful of the new arrivals, seeing them as thieves of scarce resources.

80.  Some feel that there is growing ethnic and political conflict as a result of competition for scarce resources.