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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.
In the current climate of scarce resources, LSC must remain committed to pursuing bold new approaches that foster effective legal assistance to low-income clients, including overhauling service areas adjudged to be insufficiently responsive to the tenets of State Planning.
Housing had always been scarce for Hong Kong’s Chinese.
) A writer travels to Baghdad and finds Iraqis despairing: Food and jobs are scarce, travel is impossible, and internal security is overbearing.
Clothing and rations are scarce: Navy servicemen have starved to death.