-challenged (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dan Goncharoff]

In the business speak I know, there is a clear distinction between human
resources (people) and capital resources (things).

DanG


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:

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> In the business-speak I hear from my wife, a resource is always a person
> (ie a human resource).
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> Neal
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> On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:10 AM, "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <
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> > In Pentagon-speak (and much of the rest of the govt, I suppose),
> > resource means money.
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> >> Rep. Menendez tells a Congressional committee that the State
> > Department
> >> "has been resource-challenged for many years."
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> >> Not enough money? Not enough people? Not enough embassies? Not enough
> >> brains? Not enough pencils? Not enough anything?
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> >> But the term *is* user-friendly.
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