The FDIC is currently running a little short, and is borrowing to supplement its fund.
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They believe that Andrew Lansley's presentation of the changes has been little short of calamitous.
That makes it an increase of something like 500 times in a little short of 50 years.
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For five years oil refiners have been coining money, as capacity fell just a little short of demand.
It now seems that Labour is indeed a little short of generosity where the Lib Dems are concerned.
The fact that he is coming up a little short among young voters is a great cause for concern.
He then added that the United States can do little short of leaving.
Conclusion: This canary is a little short of breath but will survive.
Well, it's time to get the tomatoes and cucumbers planted, but what are you going to do if you're little short on space.
"We played hard, we competed, we just fell a little short, " said Gordon Hayward, who led Utah with 17 points and a career-high four blocks.
"That he somehow did not suffer the same ultimate fate as his brother, and survived, is little short of miraculous, " prosecutor Edward Brown QC said.
Jonny Wilkinson, a little short of his best kicking form, nevertheless notched 16 points and is just five short of Gavin Hastings' World Cup record 227.
For those of us with some international perspective, it has long been obvious that the compensation packages American CEOs award themselves are little short of daylight robbery.
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Frankly it would be little short of astonishing if even Mr Hester, with his background in investment banking, understood everything that RBS gets up to around the world.
It's little short of criminal that John Travolta, who plays Edna Turnblad, hasn't made a musical in a quarter of a century, and if he has to put on a housedress, a wig and a full-body fat suit to get to do this one, then so be it.
His play over the final 54 holes was little short of phenomenal, putting behind him an opening 74 and conceding just one more bogey - on his 19th hole of the tournament - before playing the remainder in 14 under par with rounds of 68, 65 and 67.
So it is unsurprising that much of the media - and many of you in the comments you leave here and on Twitter - say that it would be little short of a scandal if the bank's senior executives were to receive big pay awards when bonuses and longer-term performance rewards are decided early next month.
But in the U.S., despite persistent concerns, free choice is an overriding ethic, and fast-food and cookie sellers like McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ), Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) and Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT - news - people ) have little short-term fear of such restrictions.
There seems to be a prevailing view that it is little short of scandalous that Goldman Sachs in the UK may defer the handing over of shares to its executives, so that they would be liable to next year's income tax rate of 45% on the payments rather than this year's 50% (see this morning's FT for more on this).
"I'm sorry that we got here a little bit late and a little bit short, " the defeated presidential candidate said Wednesday afternoon.
He fell a little bit short but I'd like to say he made a decent effort going from number 36 to eight, and then finishing the year at number 11.
There will be precious little support from short covering to cushion the blow of any sell-offs.
On the one hand it is clear that Alfred Little is a short seller who has a financial motivation to portray his findings in the most negative light possible.
Most of these business assets cost time and money to build, and bring in little value in the short-term.
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Moreover, there is little room for either short-or long-term interest rates to fall.
Sun Life 's numbers were weak, and although Great-West Life's profit was up a little, it fell short of the forecasts.
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