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The authors drew on an economic principle to explain the finding: The more value we assign to our time, the scarcer it seems to us.

The big western oil companies are trying to expand through acquisitions and investment, but the opportunities do so are becoming scarcer.

How much scarcer could I be?

Inevitably India will now be able to direct more of its scarcer domestic uranium to its military needs.

The scarcer the security you want to swap, the lower the interest rate you pay for the cash, known as the repo rate.

It may be a long way from the Rift Valley, a tribal tinderbox where jobs are scarce and land even scarcer, to the tidy streets of The Hague.

With money scarcer, those governments that do not spend it well will find themselves subject to popular protests.

Professionally produced content, however, is likely to become much scarcer for those unwilling to pay for it.

Farming is possible only in valleys fed by glacial runoff, and these are becoming scarcer as glaciers disappear due to warming.

Dearer, scarcer credit is not the only reason.

And if you're a woman over 40, you might as well just play a grandma. The roles are even scarcer.

And yet pure iron is scarcer than gold or diamonds.

Infantry regiments tend to recruit from poor areas where jobs are scarce and A-levels scarcer.

Capital as a punishment promises to be scarcer still.

With investment scarce and jobs even scarcer, countries that sparkle in global league tables can send a powerful signal to investors.

You can lay off kitchen staff when times get tough, or substitute the cheaper tilapia for the fancier and scarcer Chilean sea bass.

Meanwhile, Gulf states have decided it makes business sense to sell their ever-scarcer oil and buy nuclear power for themselves.

This year, with the global economy desiccating by the day, liquidity is scarcer still.

One good Husband is worth two good Wives; for the scarcer things are the more they're valued.

It could make a big difference at a time when the population is growing, farming costs are rising, and water is becoming scarcer.

To avoid similar credit crises in the future, thrift must replace leverage and scarcer capital has to be invested more productively.

Food is scarcer now thanks to market liberalisation, which helped to cut excess production and lower stocks.

Yet most are still more concerned that the economy could yet nosedive as credit becomes scarcer.

But others say continued demand from China in coming years and falling ore grades mean supply will become scarcer.

Some want new production curbs imposed immediately to make milk scarcer and thus more expensive.

In many places water is becoming scarcer . Treating it as a right makes the scarcity worse.

Could that change as populations grow, climates change and water becomes ever scarcer?

This shows an interesting aspect of human nature. The scarcer something is, the more highly people tend to value it.

As they hoard capital in response, credit is rapidly becoming both scarcer and more expensive.

It is widely believed that it came from animals and humans sharing ever scarcer water.

(Condition of 4) psychedelic covet: Scarcer , have occasionally brief photism, phonism persecutes with messier, unfixed covet.

Yet in many farming regions, water is scarce and likely to get scarcer as global warming worsens.

and it will mean scarcer and costlier loans for Italian companies, which in turn may slow economic growth and hamper debt repayment.

Moreover, bank lending has become scarcer as European banks boost their capital buffers.

In the mid-1880s, aluminum was a semi-precious metal, scarcer than silver.

With jobs scarcer and the pound weak, Britain is a less attractive destination and some migrants are returning home.

The Pentagon is focusing scarcer defense dollars on ways to counter the kinds of weapons China is now building.

What could be scarcer or more precious than love?

Clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change.

Jobs for the young were getting scarcer even before the crash.

Babysitters on Halloween are even scarcer than on New Year's Eve.

And it requires something far scarcer than money - thinking and risk-taking.

Our tall canal procession is quite so steady, this is scarcer also in the industry.

Gome has large amounts of short-term credit from suppliers, which is becoming scarcer.

Cement and steel rods have become scarcer (there is a thriving black market in both).

Children are scarcer, the elderly are not yet numerous, and the country has a bulge of working-age adults: the "demographic dividend" .

The message remains the same, even if we increase the numbers as long as left shoes are scarcer.

As water becomes ever scarcer, far too many people are driven to drink from filthy surface water.

Start-up capital is scarcer than it is elsewhere.

Surveys suggest they will get even scarcer.

And those $250 netbooks are much scarcer.

That is not because the hunters have become less aggressive, but because suitable seals have become scarcer.

But the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive!

Above all, it will be scarcer.

The coach that attend class has two, bringing student at the same time making a motion, this is scarcer also on gymnastical class.

Not only have consumers stopped spending money, but credit to buy a new car is much scarcer.

Climate change, it says, will make food even scarcer in semi-arid countries such as Sudan.

With India and China, both prodigious consumers of ever-scarcer fresh water, the rivalries are mostly, though not entirely, internal.

wildlife is far scarcer here than it used to be

Higher production costs and scarcer supplies will tend to raise prices, so that workers can buy less with the same dollar wages;