However, the Dutch Economic Affairs ministry said there was no national shortage in the country.
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The supply chain was disrupted for everyone, which created a consumer shortage in the fourth quarter.
Johnny Carson, then king of late-night TV, jocularly warned of an impending shortage in toilet paper.
The country risks an electricity shortage in 2009 unless it finds new sources of gas.
There does seem to be a supply shortage in the oil markets at present.
Professor Rauh estimates that the shortage in pension funding is on average a third higher today.
There is no shortage in the need for helping hands, especially on weekdays and over the holidays.
With the looming spectrum shortage in the United States, one could even argue for a higher number.
Additionally, many bargain hunters are buying on this dip causing a shortage in the supplies of physical metals.
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Its growth bid comes after claims of an air travel capacity shortage in south east England, by 2020.
Semiconductor capital spending dropped off in the middle of 2011 and this will result in a shortage in mid-2013.
This "perfect storm" between facility issues and lower natural gas production overseas has caused a shortage in helium worldwide.
Associated building costs have also increased owing to a shortage in raw materials.
More small airplanes require more pilots and more air-traffic controllers -- and these people are in great shortage in Asia.
The measures are a response to an unprecedented shortage in China's workforce.
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"There's no such issue as a labor shortage in China, " she said.
There have been shortages of the capsule in the past, particularly during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, and another shortage in 2011.
This, he hopes, will also help him deal with a labor shortage in a country whose native-born show little ken for factory work.
Suffice to say that they got this categorization wrong on one such hedge, perhaps due to an aspirin shortage in the accounting department.
Greek-Cypriot hoteliers and builders are looking to Turkish-Cypriots to fill a worsening labour shortage in the faster-growing and by now very much richer south.
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The worst water shortage in more than a century has hit the country's southwest, in Guizhou and Sichuan provinces in addition to Yunnan and Guangxi.
Dr Anwar added it was working with outside agencies to resolve the shortage in rehabilitation beds and elderly care provision which was affecting hospital discharges.
But there's a 190-million-ton annual supply shortage in part due to strict environmental laws and bureaucratic delays that have slowed the opening of new coal mines.
Mental health services also suffer from a shortage in specialists approved to carry out the assessments which ensure the act is used appropriately, the CQC says.
Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) stock recently fell over 5%, dropping to a 7-month low, in the wake of a literal fabric shortage in its black yoga and crop pants.
Last year he also called on the UK government to licence the opium poppy trade in Afghanistan, to help combat a world shortage in the pain-killing drug morphine.
Employer groups argue that the regulatory flip-flopping would have made it difficult for them to plug the shortage in seasonal workers at a busy time for crop production.
Owners of empty homes in a Kent town could be forced to sell their properties as part of a council scheme to ease a housing shortage in the area.
Some academic researchers say it is hard to quantify an actual labor shortage in U.S. agriculture, in part because there is so little evidence of a decline in production.
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It is reported that around half of all university under-graduates fail to complete their courses, and a serious skills shortage in the country continues to hold back the growth of the economy.
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