Faced with a shortage of dollars in November, the government slapped controls on imports.
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The train operator has said it hopes to have dealt with a shortage of drivers by mid-December.
Queen's Hospital said 60 extra midwives were recruited to deal with a shortage.
Turns out, people would rather deal with a shortage of their favorite bourbon than a shortage of alcohol in their bourbon.
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The departure of those two players has left Ferguson with a shortage of strikers, with Fraizer Campbell also likely to be sold.
Maureen McMullan, Managing Director of Roll Formed, said the construction industry was under pressure for faster building combined with a shortage of skilled tradesmen.
Year groups will take it in turns to miss lessons because the loss of the arts and theatre block has left the school with a shortage of classrooms.
On the regiment's return to the UK, commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel James Cowan said it had been left with a shortage of kit by the Ministry of Defence.
This leaves Brazil with a shortage of 8m houses and huge pent-up demand, especially from the poor, who tend to build their own dwellings one room at a time.
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Faced with a shortage of physicians and demands that doctors adhere to new quality standards while at the same time keeping costs low, these are historic times for the American Medical Association.
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Palm, which spun off from computer giant 3Com last year, said it was having difficulties with a shortage of components for its popular electronic organiser, the Palm Vx and new entry level m100.
That way grid operators could, say, automatically lower the cost of transmitting power from a region with excess to capacity to one with a shortage, instead of letting the problem fester until the peaker plants turn on and phone calls and faxes fly.
An area of little doubt: The next few weeks will bring more difficulties to areas untouched by the earthquake and tsunami as the electric utility Tepco institutes rolling blackouts in the Kanto region around Tokyo to cope with a shortage of power.
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Inspectors were sent into Haringey to make their assessments and concluded that although there were some problems with a shortage of social workers in Haringey and with the speed in which children's cases were picked up, they judged child protection in Haringey to be "adequate".
It matters, therefore, whether this is a short-term blip - due to labour-hoarding by employers, for example, coupled with a shortage of demand - or whether something more fundamental has been happening to the "supply side" of our economy, which is systematically preventing us from growing out of the crisis as quickly as we had hoped.
This, he hopes, will also help him deal with a labor shortage in a country whose native-born show little ken for factory work.
The airline has been struggling with a cash shortage and has reported losses for five years in a row.
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India is faced with a crippling shortage of power to run its factories and light its homes.
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East, with a severe shortage of water and rising levels of malnutrition among its population of about 25 million.
Such a set-up is an elegant way of coping with a national shortage at the top: one head and five deputies are easier to find than two of each.
And, with a power shortage blacking out large parts of the country for two hours each day and unemployment rising sharply, there are plenty of other things to think about.
But the trucking industry has been beset with a chronic shortage of drivers, rising fuel costs, clogged highways and new federal rules that reduce the number of hours truckers can drive.
Shortages of places to look after those with a learning disability and a shortage of beds to care for the acutely mentally ill were again in the news in 2008.
While we've already learned that television shows pull double duty as entertainment and a sedative, and that launching a console with a widely understood shortage hitting stores can cause all sorts of madness and criminal activity to break loose, the last thing we needed was one more " study" claiming that video games breed rage.
However, the skills shortage within the industry remained one of the biggest issues for firms, with a third naming a shortage of skills as the biggest challenge they will face.
He admitted that there were problems both with funding, and a shortage of expert mental health staff.
Some of the problems facing the social work profession in particular had become clear - too much time taken up with form filling, a shortage of front-line staff and increasing caseloads.
We note the sharp contrast with 2001, when a shortage of dollar liquidity (strong and strengthening dollar, high real interest rates, low central bank dollar reserves, falling gold and commodity prices, rapidly shrinking U.S. profits) all spelled weakness.
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