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- Access to water seen as potential flashpoint: PM
- SINGAPORE AFP — Access to water is increasingly seen as a potential global flashpoint, Singapore's prime minister said Tuesday. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the pace and scale of urbanisation has intensified the challenge of providing safe, reliable and affordable water. "More and more cities and countries...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- Mismanagement threatens Asian water crises: ADB study
- SINGAPORE AFP — The mismanagement of resources, not scarcity, will lead to water crises in developing Asian nations, said a study commissioned by the Asian Development Bank and released on Thursday. Urbanisation, industrialisation, population growth and climate change were likely to put a strain on the region's water resources,...
- Research articles 2007-11-28
- Spanish city looking to become world water capital
- ZARAGOZA, Spain AFP — With water scarcity becoming a key environmental challenge, the northeastern Spanish city of Zaragoza is looking to use the 2008 World's Fair which it will host to become an international leader on the issue. Located on the banks of the Ebro river, the city of...
- Research articles 2007-04-22
- Water scarcity: Global warming to deepen thirst for blue gold
- PARIS AFP — Fresh water, the stuff of life, is set to become even more precious as global warming begins to bite, experts warned ahead of World Water Day on Thursday. The theme of this year's event is water scarcity, a problem familiarly driven by population explosion, chronic wastage...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- Experts call for radical re-think in global water management
- STOCKHOLM AFP — With the world's population forecast to grow by 2-3 billion by 2050 and water already a scarce resource for some, there has to be a radical transformation in the management of the planet's resources of the life-giving liquid, experts warned at the start of World Water Week...
- Research articles 2006-08-20
- Kindergartens - a male-free zone.
- Byline: Leigh Parry Apr 23, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Kindergarten Parents Victoria claims that of the estimated 2,000 kindergarten teachers in the state, only about 20 are male. Gerard Mansour, Kindergarten Parents' CEO, says that issues such as...
- Research articles 2006-04-23
- Global Warming Will Make Water Crisis Intolerable
- MEXICO CITY, Mexico ENS — -----------> An international meeting on the future of the world's fresh water resources is marking World Water Day today with a renewed effort to ensure that more clean drinking water reaches the 1.1 billion people who do not have access to safe water, but the...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- Conduit-based regulation of speech.
- ABSTRACT Architecture is destiny. As much as information today determines the contemporary wealth of nations, the physical world retains its relevance. Architecture affects crime rates, arguably even collegiality among professors. The interplay between the physical and the ethereal likewise shapes the constitutional doctrine...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Value of water: Political ecology and water reform in Southern Africa
- Our study draws attention to the multiple ways water is "valued" in international, national, and local discourses and how these different dialogues are used by actors to position themselves and their interests in Zimbabwe's water reform process. It raises questions concerning the liberatory nature of Zimbabwe's supposed populist political agenda...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- rise and demise of the technology-specific approach to the first amendment, The
- INTRODUCTIONCongress and the Federal Communications Commission FCC have historically relied on models of media regulation that were shaped by the distinct physical and economic characteristics of the communications media governed by the Communications Act of 1934.1 Originally, person-to-person communications were available only through wire-based technologies, which were characterized by the...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- FABBL scarcity warning
- When producers claim a proposed official course of action is unwise because it could push up food prices, traders question their motives. Yet it is hard for them to dispute the National Beef Association's call to delay implementing the tightening of the Farm Assured British Beef and Lamb regime...
- Research articles 2002-06-15
- Optimists, pessimists, and science. (Special Book Article).
- Are things getting better or worse? Are the advances in our environmental understanding and ethics translating into improved relations with nature faster than population numbers are rising, new technologies are being deployed, and economies are growing? Some such big question typically arises after I have given a public lecture on...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- Why more TV is a lot better.(Turner Networks' Garth Ancier)(Brief Article)
- Garth Ancier, now the programming chief of Turner Networks, explained on a panel to ABC's Sam Donaldson that the real revolution in programming is that "now there is no scarcity." Where once there were just three networks and fewer stations altogether, now there is a surplus...
- Research articles 2001-04-25
- Spending drives strong economy
- Consumer spending is healthy and should deter the U.S. Central bank from raising interest rates anytime soon, according to the Federal Reserve. The latest "Beige Book" summary of U.S. economic conditions, which covers the period from March 8 to April 26, concluded that business was improving with rising demand for...
- Research articles 1999-05-24
- Scarcity, bugs plague 68040; Motorola says ramp up is underway.
- Scarcity, bugs plague 68040 SANTA CLARA, CA--Makers of VMEbus boards at Buscon West complained that Motorola's latest 32-bit microprocessor, the 68040, was still neither available in sufficient quantities nor bug free following its fourth mask revisi Scarcity, bugs plague 68040 SANTA CLARA, CA--Makers of VMEbus boards...
- Research articles 1991-03-07
- More Web channels change entertainment distribution.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- SAN DIEGO--The Internet is transforming the economics of distributing films and TV programs from a model based on a scarcity of channels to one based on an abundance, according to speakers at the third-annual Variety Interactive Summit held here la SAN DIEGO--The Internet is...
- Research articles 2000-02-07
- Scarcity Makes Consumers Buy More
- At the toy store, what do you do when confronted with an empty space where your child's most desired gift was to be? You are likely to buy something else, an item you previously wouldn't have purchased. "When one product is sold out, customers have the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- The Future Of News Is Scarcity
- Nic Brisbourne is a partner at European venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, investing in software and media. He was previously an associate with Reuters Venture Capital and an executive at Cazenove Private Equity. He blogs at The Equity Kicker...News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and other traditional news businesses are hand-wringing...
- External links 2009-08-27
- More Precious Than Gold
- In this world there is something more precious than gold. Diamonds? No. Platinum? No. Some other precious metal? No. Time is the most precious commodity we have. Like everything else, it is its scarcity that increases its value. The value of something is in its scarcity. It's a matter of...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- In Short Supply
- Just as scarcity ignites passion in collectors, exclusivity fans the flame for a wide range of consumers. Building that special aura around one's own products or services requires deft handling of a carefully crafted marketing program. The challenge is to successfully walk the line between enticing customers and raising barriers...
- White papers 2004-06-01
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