But the scarcer support staff become, and the longer telephone inquirers have to hold on, the easier it is to encourage customers to look up the answer to their problem online.
The CBP is in a position not unlike many other service agencies in the country, struggling to keep projects going, finding and securing scarce funding to support not only projects and programmes, but staff, office space etc.
Arctic foxes generally escape competition from red foxes by living farther north, where food is too scarce to support the larger-bodied red species.
Rather than put scarce federal support for higher education into for-profit trade schools, our nation would be better served by investing in community colleges.
But differences in ideology and competition for scarce foreign support have made it hard for them to unite under an effective, single command.
At the moment, evidence is too scarce to support the clinical application of the techniques and further research studies are needed to better clarify all the pending issues.
But scarce government support should be a tide that lifts all clean energy boats, not something that picks single technologies that just don't float in the real world.
Since vasopressor or inotropic medications were scarce, cardiovascular support medications, when available (e.g., dopamine and epinephrine), were rarely utilized, especially on the medical ward.
