Sentences with phrase «new scarce resource»

Together these changes have shifted market power away from the firms that own content toward the digital platforms that control a new scarce resource: the customer.

Not exact matches

I say all the time that time is our scarcest resource, that attention is the new currency, and that increasingly we will only make space for what we're interested in, but not everyone's in a hurry every day.

More broadly, prize competitions to reward targeted innovation and crowd - source new ideas offer a highly cost - effective opportunity for government to leverage its scarce resources for important public goals.

SCARCE supply and growing demand from the resources sector have helped push Perth's hotels market to the top of the class, with the Western Australian capital outperforming all major Australian cities over 2011, according to new research.

The state Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, which represents some 21,000 corrections officers and security guards, launched a «major» statewide radio ad campaign today to remind New Yorkers of the difficult and dangerous jobs performed by their members, day in and day out, even as resources are scarce and violence is on the rise.

When looking for scarce food resources, animals might traverse random paths as they search through their grazing terrain, or move to new territory.

«As surface water sources became more scarce during a given climate cycle, the only species to survive may have been those with adaptations for sufficient mobility to discover a new and more persistent groundwater source, or those already settled within home range of such a resource,» co-author Professor Gail Ashley, Rutgers University (US), said.

While security issues from Iran to Syria dominated the three - hour hearing, Kerry also wove climate, food security and competition for scarce resources into a broad new narrative of diplomacy.

In a hectic work schedule with scarce resources, it may be a challenge for businesses to find the time and money to develop new ideas and products.

As the science and its applications develop, a comprehensive approach to addressing ethical and social issues of emerging technologies as a whole is called for if scarce intellectual resources are to be used optimally, according to a new report authored by Erik Parens, Josephine Johnston, and Jacob Moses of The Hastings Center.

Concentrating resources in the «healthy» part of the system is especially important at a time when funding is very limited and new positions are scarce: two conditions that are currently met by the Italian academic system.

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

Unable to increase local property taxes sufficiently, the warped education strategy that has been developed by Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, will continue to mean that many communities will face higher property taxes while actually being forced to reduce their education programs so they can shift scarce resources away from student instruction and toward implementing the new Common Core tests and the absurd new teacher evaluation program.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

Since the state is not reimbursing towns for most of these new costs, Malloy's proposals will actually force most Connecticut towns to increase local property taxes and reduce existing education programs as they divert scarce resources to pay for Malloy's untested and inappropriate programs.

We helped to empower school communities to allocate scarce resources effectively and prioritize resources for our highest need students by OUSD and through the new Local Control Funding Formula.

«We need a new approach to the ongoing failure of our city school systems... one that stops jamming scarce resources into dysfunctional systems that remain impervious to reform and improvement,» Smarick wrote in a recent blog post for a conservative think tank.

Efforts to foster collaboration between district and charter schools — traditional rivals for scarce educational resources — are showing some promise, but challenges remain in forging effective partnerships, according to a new study released today by Mathematica Policy Research.

Instead of using scarce resources on new grammar schools, we should focus on improving early years education and tackling stubborn levels of under - achievement in areas such as the black country, and areas across the midlands and the north.

For example, in the recent resources boom, we heard from an acquaintance in the mining industry that mining truck tires were so scarce as to sell in many instances at a higher price second hand than new.

«Cape Town has shown us that certain resources are becoming increasingly scarce; we are living in a new normal,» he explains.

· Separated from his family, search the ruins of a» 1986» Seattle and uncover the fate of Randall's loved ones · Solve puzzles and overcome environmental hazards in tense 2D platforming · Decimate zombies with melee combat and weapons, or sneak past using the environment · Combat isn't always the answer, especially when ammunition, weapons, and resources are scarce · Survive endless waves of zombies in the new «Survival Arena» mode!

Details on the event are scarce but from a sneaky look at game files in the most recent update, it looks like a new Candy Cane event resource will be introduced to craft the Christmas furniture.

Economists mostly treated global warming as a challenge of distributing scarce resources (e.g., the right to pollute), not of creating new ones (e.g., cheap zero carbon energy sources).

Clearly the election doesn't change California's severe drought, and nor will it change the proactive steps that many companies are taking to adapt to the new normal of ever - scarce water resources.

Scarce resources will require some adaptation; Verizon's new silicon - based FIOS is faster and more resource efficient.

Such experience is important at a time when jobs are scarce; many employers do not have the time or resources to train new attorneys and legal personnel.

So it's a challenge to create that environment because what it underlies is that resources are quite scarce and to retain our people with the new trends going on is more and more of a challenge.

For injured workers, however, even with both the Ontario Human Rights Code and AODA in place, new barriers are being introduced by the WSIB that further hurt injured workers: Deeming is a barrier to employment for injured workers, and by forcing them on to social assistance, is a barrier for others needing to access scarce resources; failure to implement full coverage is a barrier to access disability income support.

Opportunities for new lawyers to gain practical skills by working at law firms have become scarce as law firms are downsizing, or have been unable to spend their resources in training young lawyers.

«Instead of creating new jobs and investing in new technologies, businesses large and small across many industries — from national realty, construction, and technology businesses to Main Street retail shops, hotels, grocers, convenience stores, and restaurants — continue to be forced to divert scarce resources to fighting frivolous lawsuits and overly broad claims made by Patent Assertion Entities, or «patent trolls».»

«Instead of creating new jobs and investing in new technologies, businesses large and small across many industries... continue to be forced to divert scarce resources to fighting frivolous lawsuits and overly broad claims made by Patent Assertion Entities, or «patent trolls».»

While successful implementation of c - intake systems may improve appropriate utilization of services by allocating scarce resources to families most in need and minimizing competition for referrals among home visiting programs, these systems inherently introduce a «new person» or «additional step» to the recruitment, intake, and referral process, which may affect wait times, enrollment rates, as well as the determination of the match between the family and program.

Brokerage firms do not want to make the mistake of investing too heavily in new technology and squandering scarce resources, and they also do not want to be left behind.

These become ever more important as resources become scarce and the quality of human life lessens — just remember the recent factory collapses and death tolls in India as a direct result of our need for new things.