In an era when educational resources are limited by budgetary constraints, the waste of money is inexcusable.
But Mr. Mitchell is unusual in working for a small newspaper — circulation 75,000 — in an era when papers' resources have been squeezed hard, and many have come to see investigative reporting as a time-consuming extravagance they cannot afford.
At an era when the healthcare resources are unlikely to grow as quickly as demand, economic analyses remain the cornerstone for the justification of the broad use of medication with an acceptable cost-effectiveness ratio.
In an era when governments lacked the resources of the modern tax-and-spend state, the state-backed company was a backstop against bankruptcy.State-backed monopolies are apt to run to fat and lose their animal spirits.
The derivatives, representing one row of the design matrix A, are used to update the normal matrix N. Updating the normal matrix reflection by reflection is a historical artefact, dating from an era when memory was a scarce resource.
The Tax People is just one example of the vulnerability of the income tax system to questionable operations in an era when Congress has sharply reduced the resources to hunt for tax cheats and has imposed new rules that make it difficult for I.R.S. agents to pursue cases.
The studio has had mixed success--with such hits as Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," "Antz" and the TV show "Spin City" and duds like the movie "In Dreams" and the TV show "Ink". In an era when studios are curtailing costs and conserving resources, they said, building a studio no longer made sense.
In an era when microfinance for small-scale entrepreneurs has become mainstream, the reallocation of resources to support high-potential entrepreneurs may seem elitist and inequitable.
In an era when most wealth comes in the form of financial securities rather than physical resources, wars of conquest would seem to be a losing proposition.
"In an era when budgets are tight, it's critical for the I.R.S. to have the resources it needs to root out tax cheats".
