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Such information is presently scarce or missing.
Whichever route is chosen, the scarce analytical resources now dispersed amongTTIC, the Defense Intelligence Agency's Joint Interagency Task Force-Combatting Terrorism (JITF-CT), and the DCI's Counterterrorist Center (CTC) should be concentrated more effectively than they are now.
Although silk goods are becoming scarce, designer-label sportswear, ties, and luggage are abundant and cheap if the buyer is willing to haggle.
I went to high school--a small school with only a minority of Italians--with a girl named Pochintesta ( poco little, in in, testa head), another named Zucchi (a plural form of zucca squash, or, colloquially, head; Hanks and Hodges say this name was often given to a person of scarce intelligence, as in pumpkinhead), one boy named Chiappa (buttock), and another named Chiappinelli (which may be either an extended diminutive of Chiappa or the diminutive of chiappino , which Battaglia defines as a type of ape).
Thus, difficult decisions will have to be made as to how to design HIV treatment strategies with these scarce resources.