Screwing this up can result in short supplies, cost overruns and unhappy customers.
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During the financial crisis, banks stopped lending to each other, resulting in their short-term supplies of funding drying up.
The idea, he said, would be to persuade people to conserve energy stores in the short term so supplies would even out.
But she said it was likely that food shortages would become an issue too - "both the distribution of supplies in the short-term, and the rehabilitation of crops damaged in the flooding, in a country where the majority of people are dependant on agriculture for a living".
And while the extra water from the melting glacier may be increasing the fertility of adjacent lowland areas in the short-term, water supplies would become critically low if it disappears.
Ready supplies of liquidity are reassuring in the short-term.
After more than 18 hours at sea, with fuel and supplies running short and no land in sight, the boat's captain called a priest, who contacted the Italian maritime rescue service, which in turn alerted boats in the area, the report said.
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The facilities could also be used to create drinkable water supplies in those countries where such a resource is in short supply.
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In some hospitals, operations are now being cancelled and the monitoring we have in place suggests that in some places drugs, food and medical supplies are now running short.
Experts at Ux Consulting (UxC), which produces what has become the industry standard price index for uranium, noted that while underlying fundamentals remain strong, financial speculation and the possible dumping of supplies into the market could keep prices for the yellow metal suppressed in the short to medium run. (Read Uranium and Nuclear Stocks Feel The Shock Waves Of Fukishima Meltdown).
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Harvests are dependent on the weather, and short-term changes in demand are out of kilter with the long-term investments needed to boost supplies of metals and oil.
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Seeking to ramp up production so fast, and relying so heavily on local supplies, also risks starving non-oil businesses of capital and skilled labour (which is in desperately short supply).
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