Sentences with phrase «requiring vast resources»

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Upon returning to the workforce, Cheryl took the steps necessary to become a licensed financial services professional and quickly realized the vast majority of current and prospective retirees did not have access to the advice and resources required to make an educated decision on, what in most cases, will prove to be one of the most critical financial decisions they'll ever make; when and how to claim Social Security retirement benefits.

All this consumption requires a host of natural resources, from vast copper mines scarring the landscape to ever more land for food.

The vast amount of data generated through large - scale DNA sequencing required supercomputing resources for analysis.

Phil is also co-Director of the Protein Data Bank (PDB), whose vast store of data-most major journals and funding agencies now require scientists to submit relevant protein structure data to PDB - has become a key resource for the biology and genomics research communities.

As Stanford business school professor Jeffrey Pfeiffer notes in «Six Dangerous Myths About Pay,» performance incentives not only «absorb vast amounts of management time and resources,» they often «actually decrease performance in tasks that require creativity and innovation.»

Nick Moran of The Millions had interesting prospective, mentioning «The emissions and e-waste for e-Readers could be stretched even further if I went down the resource rabbit hole to factor in: electricity needed at the Amazon and Apple data centers; communication infrastructure needed to transmit digital files across vast distances; the incessant need to recharge or replace the batteries of eReaders; the resources needed to recycle a digital device (compared to how easy it is to pulp or recycle a book); the packaging and physical mailing of digital devices; the need to replace a device when it breaks (instead of replacing a book when it's lost); the fact that every reader of eBooks requires his or her own eReading device (whereas print books can be loaned out as needed from a library); the fact that most digital devices are manufactured abroad and therefore transported across oceans.

But because meat requires such vast resources to produce, meat isn't sustainable for the global population as a way of life.

Home to two thirds of the world's poor, the region will require the mobilization of vast resources to address its development challenges, with estimates of annual investment requirements amounting to around $ 2.1 trillion.

Meat without industrial scale cattle ranches, without the vast drain on resources required to raise millions of cows.