Over the past two decades, investors from outside the motion picture industry have increasingly supplied equity to U.S. film productions.
Since the mid- to late-1990s, Indian manufacturers have increasingly supplied some large buyers such as government Central Medical Stores directly, by-passing the European wholesalers.
Under Sisi, Egypt's state-owned gas company Egas has increasingly rationed supplies to much of the country's industry, which has at times crippled production and hampered economic recovery.
Though 80% of the Earth's surface is covered by water, the freshwater supply has increasingly become a limiting factor.
Just as significant, Mr. Obama has increasingly relied on a transit corridor through Russia to keep American forces in Afghanistan supplied since Pakistan shut off supply routes.
Across the past four decades, the Arctic, home to numerous indigenous peoples, has increasingly received attention for its rising role in the global energy and mineral supply (UNEP 2001, 2010).
"One of the things that makes this tough is that you have increasingly complicated supply chains," says Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation.
As in other states, teachers have increasingly had to purchase supplies for their classrooms with their own money.
Consumers have increasingly turned to groundwater supplies, putting an enormous strain on the state's aquifers.
Amid soaring prices in the global marketplace for top-quality colored stones, Jaipur's gem cutters and jewelers have increasingly found themselves outbid for supplies by larger and better-financed rivals, and some are turning to subterfuge to make good the shortfall.
But when such emergencies are not absorbing their attention, food banks have increasingly moved beyond providing short-term supplies of food and water to confronting chronic hunger and poor nutrition, and the reality that the poor can suffer from hunger and obesity.
