Sentences with phrase «of scarce time»

This is because the period during which the product is likely to be read or referred to is too short to repay a large allocation of scarce time and skill in its production.

Not exact matches

But first movers can command the higher margins associated with new, novel, and often scarce products (for a period of time) and this lets you build up cash reserves for the future price battles to come.

In many cases the costs of use and adoption have a lot more to do with the calculated allocation of scarce personal time and precious resources rather than with just dollars and cents.

Giving consumers the ability to «buy back» an increasingly scarce resource — their time — is the future of consumerism.

But the Target strategy is also likely to ease pressure on its margins by cutting down on overtime and general pay at a time when shoppers are scarce, the results of the «Black Friday» creep that has led many retailers to open their doors on Turkey Day and progressively bring up store opening times in the last decade.

If you just charge people a lower price when there's a lot of wind and sun (when the supply of electricity is abundant and cheap) and a higher price at times when there's not, they'll reduce consumption when electricity is scarce.

He noted that mega-incubators like 1871 are great places to get started because they enable entrepreneurs to avoid all kinds of costs and commitments that are bad uses of their scarce capital and — at the same time — to secure access to enormous amounts of «free» resources, education, networking and mentoring that will be crucial to their long - term success.

The built - in LED lights can be activated if you're running when sunlight is scarce, but the neoprene armband will provide you with a lightweight feel and wick away excess sweat no matter the time of day.

Kids who think they'll live forever (and are frankly too young to even understand the consequences of their actions) have no concept of opportunity costs or the fact that your time is probably the scarcest resource you have.

We're all in a hurry these days and time is the scarcest resource of all.

The very best entrepreneurs are relatively advantaged in times of scarce capital.

It is also worth noting that austerity has constricted both the supply and liquidity of bonds, making them scarce in a time of high demand.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

In spite of how much communities desire entrepreneurship, first - time entrepreneurs often find themselves in a desert of scarce resources.

In the best case for HR departments, we could get back to a time when the economy gets strong enough and talent gets scarce enough that the structure of companies gets rethought once again.

For 1.6 times 2015 book value, versus its own valuation of 1.4 times, Coli will add 50 per cent to its land bank in top tier cities, such as Beijing and Shenzhen, where land is increasingly scarce.

It is mind - boggling to imagine the implication of finally having a store of value that is also strictly scarce, like human time, with no possibility for increased supply devaluing the value stored inside it.

The only truly scarce resource according to Simon is human time, whose allocation into the production of material things can always produce more of them.

But from the time in which the Real Philosophy has appear'd there is scarce any whisper remaining of such horrors....

Q.: William and Paul Paddock, in their book Famine — 1975, maintain that the problem of allocating scarce medical supplies during emergencies and the problem of allocating scarce food supplies during a time of world famine are similar.

I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.

In a society hungry for ever more affluence, where resources will seem permanently scarce, the decision not to abort might in time seem a willful act of self - indulgence whose costs should be borne only by the self - indulgent woman herself.

Most people ask the big questions in times of irresolution, times when satisfying answers are scarce.

«It was a time when gluten - free food options were scarce and generally tough to stomach,» says Danielle Benjamin, marketing manager, Canyon Bakehouse, Loveland, CO. «The gluten - free breads available were tasteless, lacked in «real bread» texture and were void of any nutritional value.»

The economic consequences of nitrogen being scarce on organic farms are quite impressive: the opportunity costs (cost of producing on - farm) of 1 kg nitrogen on organic farms can amount to seven to sixteen times the cost of mineral N - fertilizers8.

The odd time we did get a good forward move going we looked capable of scoring but they were a bit too scarce for my liking.

With the rules regarding selection scarce at this moment in time, here is a potential All - Star XI made up of the top players across Northern Europe in a 4 -2-3-1 system.

The first year is often a time of chaos and exhaustion for parents of multiples, with sleep a scarce commodity and dirty diapers in plentiful supply!

Television ad slots have been scarce in contested states during election seasons before, but the combination of big - money super-PACs and the expectation that both presidential campaigns will spend heavily seems to be driving political actors to reserve time much earlier than usual.

Customer handling abilities and team working are proving to be increasingly scarce, with time and task management causing issues in around half of all skill shortage vacancies.

«These fraudsters engaged in the most reprehensible kind of conduct — stealing scarce housing resources from our most vulnerable citizens while at the same time lining their own pockets,» said Comptroller Scott Stringer.

The party said it is a waste of time, scarce national resources and ridiculous shadow - chasing, the action of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC in declaring one Yahaya Bello, purported to be of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and who did not participate in the overall election, as Kogi state Governor - elect.

Completion of the first phase of this project, at a time when undeveloped quality copper assets are scarce and the medium - term outlook for copper continues to be strong, is a significant achievement.

With affordable housing as scarce as ever, it's time for lawmakers to give prosecutors new tools to stop the menacing — and often dangerous — measures these landlords use to force tenants out of their homes,» Schneiderman said.

We live in times where justice is the scarcest commodity in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He added, «It is a great disappointment that scarce funds that should be used to develop key sectors of the government such as education, health, security and reviving of Nigerian economy in these trying times were systematically allocated to non-existing projects with the sole aim of converting such into personal use in the nearest future.

But at a press conference on Wednesday, August 31, the Majority described the move as «a needless waste of scarce resources and precious time».

During these times of shrinking budgets, data driven decisions are critical to ensure that scarce federal resources are used effectively.

For all of us, time is valuable and scarce.

Normally, fall is the leanest time of the year for the ravens; many fledglings don't make it through their first fall when food becomes scarce.

The time couldn't be riper for research into the uses of V. album because there are widespread worries that the plant is becoming scarcer.

Nonetheless, our bodies are designed to compensate for times when food is scarce by taking advantage of times when it is abundant.

The study, now published in PLOS ONE, could present scientists with the additional dilemma of finding alternative funding sources, especially during a time when federal funding may be scarce, that won't jeopardize the perceived integrity of their research.

But because «grad students pay fees» and postdocs don't, she suspects that, in a competition for scarce funds, «there might be a shift in the ratio» of time spent on postdocs versus grad students.

Case studies of real betrayals can provide insight after - the - fact, but without a time machine, finding studies that reveal big picture patterns about the lead - up to treachery are scarce.

LIVING with epilepsy is hard at the best of times, but in countries where the disorder is poorly understood and treatments are scarce, it can be deadly.

«The link between metabolism and cancer has been proposed or inferred to exist for a long time, but what is more scarce is evidence for a direct connection — genetic mutations in metabolic enzymes,» said senior author Ricardo C.T. Aguiar, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of hematology - oncology in the School of Medicine and a faculty scientist with the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the UT Health Science Center and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Division.

Also, the data indicate that life would be tough on these animals if prey were scarce or inaccessible because of boundary fences that break up the landscape, forcing the cheetahs to spend a lot more time searching.

At higher latitudes, the long summer days naturally deprive animals of sleep, but they use their time awake to eat more food to get through the short days of winter when food is scarcer.

«Times of scarce resources would have been challenging to all organisms in the area, including early human foragers.»