"Kings Park has served the needs of the State of New York and the region for over 100 years," Mr. Gardner of the Chamber of Commerce said of the psychiatric center, which housed almost 10,000 people at its peak in the 1950's.
Had he not existed, someone else would have served the need, but not conceivably as well.
Indeed, Chinese steel giants, which have benefited from cheap loans and easy access to lucrative contracts, have served the needs of local governments, hiring hundreds of thousands of workers and providing cradle-to-grave welfare services.
"Traditionally, they have been a little closed club for hedge funds, which have served the needs and interests of high-net-worth people," says Ken Taubes, director of fixed income at Pioneer.
Although formal cooperatives have never been pervasive among NIPF owners in the West (Kittredge 2005), agricultural cooperatives have served the practical need of connecting isolated rural residents with external markets, political processes, and each other (Hobbs 1995).
But, she said, "what the archbishop is really stating is the reality: that the structures that have served the Anglican Communion historically need some work.
But such atlases of odor, Vosshall pointed out, are labor-intensive to make, and traditionally they have served the rather limited needs of the flavor and fragrance industries, failing to explore the full range of human olfaction.
These codes have served the industry well, but the need for a number of enhancements has been highlighted by the widespread use of creep strength-enhanced steels, the advent of ultrasupercritical boilers constructed from nickel-based alloys, and the cyclic duty required for some plants.
"The countries that are now part of the global south have historical relations to Western nations, relations that are fraught with questions of colonial power and imperialism and formal agreements that may or may not have served the countries' long-term needs," she said.
Growing attention has been placed on injury as a major public health problem which has served to highlight the need for relevant injury data for preventive purposes at the community level.
