Prices are high, owing to trade restrictions and government support for inefficient state enterprises.

Bailing out inefficient automobile companies like General Motors only slows down the rate of progress.

And it has just retired 850,000 inefficient household refrigerators in favor of modern, energy efficient models, with millions more earmarked over the coming years.

The media have also revealed varying degrees of lack of professionalism in matters of accuracy and taste (see paras. 93 98 below).

These lack the scale to be efficient, the ability to exploit modern information technology, and the capacity to undertake research and development.

Former spies now sit atop the commanding heights of Russia s energy centric economy, but their role is not all that different from what it was in Soviet days.

They lack novelty.

It is not just that global supplies of resources are increasingly scarce, but also that supplies are increasingly falling into inefficient hands.

Turn now to efficiency.

The occasion seems a little lacking in enthusiasm, Henry.

Seems to lack nothing.

Of course, dogs are a pretty poor judge of human beauty.

Access to justice for women is lacking.

India is not about to become a second China it lacks both the means and the ambition.

What China lacked was not demand for consumption goods, but a supply of high quality financial assets.

They lack organization and strategy.

They also lack a vibrant civil society.

It also lacks any pigmentation in its skin.

The police however lacked basic equipment.

Moreover, the measures as whole usually lack visibility.

Obama should seize the initiative and make the meeting in Copenhagen next year not about bloated subsidies for inefficient technologies, but about lean investments in future breakthroughs.

But political leadership was sorely lacking.

Some states lacked the resources to pay.

This practice is also unwise.

The state of Palestine would lack legitimacy among Palestinians themselves.

It lacks support at home and respect abroad.

Unfortunately, the process lacks the necessary transparency and credibility.

Municipalities are lacking qualified solid waste managers.

The border units are not well equipped or resourced, however.

Perhaps the Government lacked the capacity to do so.

Fortunately, there is no lack of ideas in the United Nations system.

But many developing countries lack such resources.

And, you know, that's a personal relationship to expression that is lacking in the technological sphere.

Africa needed capital, but lacked savings.

Efficiency

Efficiency

After all, banks remain deeply unpopular in all developed countries.

Unfortunately, Israel is missing a coherent regional strategy.

Clearly, Turkey s political institutions lack adequate safeguards.

And criticized the government for their mindless censorship. And I paid for it.

In our view, the current process lacks realism and will not lead to real and lasting peace.

Owing to its underdeveloped financial system and inefficient capital markets, China would be unable to withstand an attack akin to those that triggered the Asian financial crisis without the protection of capital controls.

They are grievously short of funds.

It's missing features. It's too slow.

It also lacks the means to compel others to follow its lead.