Policy makers in Brussels would like to take more credit for what appears a successful European integration story, but are hindered because the resource has lost much of its appeal, and has become so controversial both amongst some Eastern European member states, for security reasons, and amongst the environmental community, which does not support the bridge fuel narrative.
The European auto industry in particular has been stung by criticisms from environmentalists and government regulators that it has been wasting precious resources and has lost the edge in environmental leadership to the Japanese.
The US "pivot to Asia," the administration's plan to shift more U.S. political, economic, and military resources toward East Asia, has lost steam over the past year.
Just since the 1989 Alaska spill, world population has increased from 5 billion to more than 7 billion; the world economy (gross world product) has more than doubled, depleting material, energy, and ecological resources; the world has lost over 130 million hectares of forest; and over one million species, most unnamed and unnoticed, have gone extinct.
Foreign countries that shunned the dictatorship, hemming it in with sanctions, can exploit Myanmar's untapped market and treasure-house of natural resources.One group, however, has lost, and lost terribly.
Mayor Bloomberg said the Police Department was a "shining example of how to do more with less," noting that crime has continued to go down even as the department has lost resources and manpower.
The National Archives has lost a resource.
The bottom is full of gold mining and resource funds, the worst being Junior Gold, which has lost 65 per cent.
Vedanta Resources is down 119p to £16 while Xstrata has lost 45p to 733p.
Ethiopia has lost majority of its forest resources especially during the twentieth century (EFAP 1994).
