"The public is worried about scarcity".
"They had lived lives of scarcity, worrying about the next meal, worrying about how to pay the rent," Fula says, but now they stayed at the elegant Westwood Marquis hotel for several months, racking up an "astronomical" bill.
And if the world can't find ways to curb its oil use on the demand side, then we're back to worrying about resource scarcity — and in that case, as Nelder argues here, high oil prices could do the job of cutting our demand.
But she worries that a scarcity of financial aid shuts out low-income students.
Dr. Ledley hoped to pursue a career in physics, but his parents, worried about the scarcity of jobs in the field, urged him to become a dentist.
With fossil fuels we have learned to worry about energy scarcity as a major concern for economic development and national security.
C1 Finding Labor After Katrina Ten weeks after Hurricane Katrina, government officials and business leaders worry that a scarcity of able-bodied workers is hampering the Gulf area's recovery.
[Page C1.] New Orleans Seeks Ways to Lure Workers Ten weeks after Katrina, government officials and business leaders worry that a scarcity of workers is hampering the recovery in New Orleans.
Their populations, for the most part, are not afflicted with widespread hunger and severe poverty, and to the extent their governments are worried about water scarcity, deforestation, pollution or other environmental challenges, declining fertility is a boon, not a burden.
The dry season begins in a few weeks, and the villagers are worried about food scarcity.
In a region racked by several insurgencies and conflicts, an increase in food scarcity is particularly worrying.
