Several cities made election preparations based on historical patterns and ran short of ballots.
Murdoch ran short of capital, too, but Mike Milken bailed him out with a high yield debenture flotation.
Some polling stations reportedly even ran short, for a time, of the indelible ink used to mark voter pinkies.
Marie Antoinette had her hair parted for parading bejeweled while Paris ran short of bread after a meager harvest.
This summer Mongolia ran short of diesel because Russian imports dried up.
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When he ran short of celebrities to act as models, he hit upon a new idea: he turned models into celebrities, creating a new creature called the supermodel.
He has planned for years to forge Baccarat into a chain of luxury boutique hotels, but several early projects ran aground, such as one in Hawaii that didn't generate enough condominium sales and another in Anguilla that ran short of financing.
On July 21st the Wall Street Journal ran a short story on its inside pages suggesting that Wayne Huizenga's AutoNation, the country's biggest car retailer, was considering offering an own-label car.
CW, a joint venture between CBS and Time Warner, got a jump on this last year, when it rolled out advertiser-sponsored clips, or content wraps, that ran as three short program segments during commercials breaks.
Her advisers were telling her that Greece's problems ran deeper than a short-term cash shortage: The country was economically uncompetitive and living beyond its means.
She was picked up by the school bus at the end of the short lane that ran alongside the gravel pit.
But Toulouse then turned the screw and after Kelleher, Heymans and William Servat were stopped short, Glasgow ran out of tacklers as Jauzion went over for the visitors' second try.
The LifeNet helicopter ran out of fuel a mile short of the destination -- within sight of the Midwest National Air Center.
His original contract was only a short term one that ran from October last year until the end of the Cup of Nations.
To find that answer, I ran a few numbers and wrote a short report on the results.
But they were to be his only boundaries as the debutant continued with the prize wicket of the Australia captain, who top-edged a short one and wicketkeeper De Villers ran back to pouch the spiralling chance.
One of his colleagues described the failure to me as a "colossal failure of culture - bankers, obsessed with generating short-term profits and bonuses, ran amok".
The interbank market tried in vain to trigger stop-losses sub-1.3460, ran smack into central bank support, got themselves short and now have been chasing the EUR higher ever since.
Investigators ran across some indication that Eric was dealing during the short period of time when he went to Western Carolina University in 1985-86.
But his luck ran out on 29 as Brad Hodge grabbed a catch at short-leg off Warne.
The group ran into several problems, ranging from the drug's short-lived action in the body to short shelf-life.
In 2012 most corporations fell far short of the mark in the eyes of their stakeholders and ran the risk of losing their social license.
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Kieswetter's luck ran out when he called for a suicidal run having hit straight to short mid-wicket, Kevin Pietersen rightly refused and the wicketkeeper-batsman was given out after lengthy video referrals which finally concluded his bat had bounced into the air when he dived for his crease as Niall O'Brien whipped off the bails.
He succeeded in the short term during this, his second, Apple tenure because he ran the whole company as a product team.
Trott came to an unfortunate end when he clipped North to short leg, lost his balance and the quick-thinking Simon Katich ran him out for 41.
The Lions ran in a total of 17 tries but their total on Tuesday was seven points short of their record score against Western Australia on the 2001 Tour.
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"I remember when I did 'Daddio, '" he said, referring to the short-lived NBC sitcom about a stay-at-home father that ran in 2000.
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The flanker ran on to Agulla's pass, burst through the Scottish defence and appeared to have fallen just short of the line with his touch down.
In short, Congress will tolerate no more Enron situations, where the top brass took the money and ran.
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