Although its harbour was left undefended, often causing shortages, the Goths could not capture Rome. |
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However, the threats of energy shortages and climate change are as huge as they are uncertain. |
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This article on energy policy shows that fuel shortages and price leaps are almost entirely created by government meddling. |
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To make matters worse, fuel shortages put restrictions on how far people could travel. |
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Their perennial threats to disconnect indebted clients, high bills and water shortages have seen to that. |
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One result of this was occasional and localized food shortages so severe as to occasion hunger, starvation, and death. |
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These workers are struggling against drastic budget cuts and staff shortages. |
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Not one oil company said that there is any supply shortages anywhere around the world. |
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In the long term we should never again have currency crisis interest rates, nor liquidity shortages of any manifest kind. |
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It is a closed economic system with a built-in mechanism for generating shortages and fiscal crises, for which there is no solution. |
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I remember receiving letters from home commenting on the shortages of rations and loo paper which had widely been reported in the press. |
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Toilets are portable and despite earlier reports, there are no shortages of loo rolls. |
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Red Cross centres are also running low on supplies, with shortages of water tanks, pumps, hoses, chainsaws and hand tools. |
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Plants that need abundant water are a luxury we can ill afford, because of the water shortages your generation will most assuredly face. |
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Design automation vendors are arguing that staff shortages are pushing customers to look at greater levels of automation. |
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With blood shortages for transfusions, companies are researching artificial blood, including human hemoglobin cultured in plant sap. |
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He also blamed a lack of support for difficult pupils remaining in mainstream schools, an inappropriate curriculum and teacher shortages. |
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Food shortages and malnutrition had their biggest impact on Afghan girl children. |
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The Ministry of Health says people are more vulnerable than usual due to malnutrition and food shortages. |
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The next two years brought surveys predicting scary scenarios of doctor shortages. |
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The new Naval chief said his force also faced equipment and manpower shortages. |
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In the American Civil War, textile shortages again hampered the Quartermaster Department's efforts to procure tentage. |
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The main teacher shortages are for subjects such as maths and design and technology. |
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The vast majority of these immigrants were brought to Europe or allowed to come because of sectorial labor shortages in Europe. |
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Because of vaccine shortages, such diseases as whooping cough, measles, mumps, and even polio have also increased. |
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This week, they announced they will close another 800 on a semi-permanent basis due to staff shortages. |
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Under the old command economy there were shortages because people had money but there was little to buy. |
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In Manitoba alone, pharmacists are already reporting drug shortages and prices are rising. |
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At present half the population, 6.7 million people, are facing food shortages due to famine. |
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Foundation hospitals offering bonuses and higher pay could drain the NHS of desperately needed workers, making dire staffing shortages worse. |
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Such societies suffer from periodic shortages and high levels of bacterial contamination, resulting in famine, disease and death. |
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Thus we can expect economic down cycles caused by oil shortages and higher prices to happen very fast. |
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Similarly, fodder shortages which cause a decline in household milch cattle can have negative nutritional consequences. |
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Due to shortages of iron and steel barbed wire entanglements were erected using wood posts hammered into the ground. |
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A report from Zimbabwe's Chamber of Mines says the country's foreign currency shortages will continue due to decreasing mineral production. |
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Demand has been driven by shortages of property and land to develop in these areas. |
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Up to three million people are facing chronic food shortages in the coming months. |
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Similarly, there are a number of countries facing severe food shortages at the moment. |
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Here individuals in villages can deal with localized shortages by drawing on foods that have been stored. |
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She said there were still many food shortages because of the disruption to supplies. |
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In many areas civilians are struggling with serious shortages of food, medicine and clean water. |
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At the same time, millions of people are facing starvation because of food shortages. |
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They made fields untillable and led to food shortages that continue to this day. |
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Apart from that, the troops achieved their aims despite shortages of arms and poor food. |
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Food shortages were a problem both for natives and refugees at the end of the war. |
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Food and other shortages have led to dissatisfaction among the population at large. |
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There were food shortages, since people from unaffected areas did not have anything to eat either. |
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Yet shortages did not mean that Soviet citizens were indifferent to consumption. |
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The crisis has led to a widespread panic about oil shortages that in turn affects the US presidential elections and presages a world recession. |
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For example, earlier in 2000, unexpected quantities of Pentium IIs made their appearance when other shortages were biting. |
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One in 10 primary school pupils could be taught by unqualified teachers from September as severe staff shortages bite. |
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This year's maize crop is expected to fail, worsening already serious food shortages. |
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Manpower shortages in the underpopulated Confederate states had led their Congress to embrace conscription even before the North did. |
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When such shortages occurred, supplies were given to firms depending on their forward forecasts. |
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Renewable energy is also the answer to imminent crude oil and natural gas shortages affecting fuel and heating needs. |
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It means grass, parks, cricket pitches and bowling greens will all be threatened by summer water shortages. |
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Zimbabwe, once a regional breadbasket, now suffers acute shortages of food, hard currency, petrol and other imports. |
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We have power shortages and shortages of food grain, vegetables and grocery items. |
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The world has moved out of that period of shortages into a period of surpluses in some commodities and softness in other commodities. |
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One in every ten Cumbrian businesses said skill shortages made it hard to fill job vacancies, the study revealed. |
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Market stalls full of food in a nation where food shortages have left millions of people on the brink of starvation. |
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But it could be also interpreted as further brinksmanship, designed to hurriedly solve its food and oil shortages. |
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However, this has not deterred rampant speculative investment, which has worsened energy shortages further. |
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Each worker has a tale of hard work, staff shortages and the daily grind to survive. |
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Industry spokesmen blamed the crisis on shortages of investment capital and excessive labor costs. |
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After six years of war, the country suffered from hyperinflation, food shortages, ill-clothed soldiers, and a plundered citizenry. |
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Manufacturing has slowed to a trickle, hamstrung by shortages of fuel and imported components. |
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His conventional forces, though obsolescent and suffering from shortages, are still sufficiently massive to threaten neighbors. |
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Power shortages are nothing new to the Lebanese who survived on candlelight during 17 years of civil war. |
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More than half the navy was not battle-ready because of cash shortages and many vessels were being cannibalised for spare parts, he said. |
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Prices steadied on Tuesday, but the concern over future shortages sent Asian markets lower. |
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Previously, acute staff shortages had been partially offset by large amounts of overtime. |
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Inflation, shortages, and declining production were the harvest of five years of perestroika and glasnost. |
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After numerous reports about energy shortages and no heat, the orchestra's hotel rooms were stifling. |
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The report states that some areas in the Zone 8 area have leaking pipes and stopcocks, and shortages of meter readers. |
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Even with the population still growing healthily, substantial labor shortages exist in some critical fields. |
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As we have painfully learnt during periods of national food shortages, it is expensive and wasteful to let crops rot for lack of storage space. |
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In the next decade, labor economists predict serious shortages in many forms of skilled and professional employment segments. |
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Experts remain divided over whether market manipulation, or power shortages, were the primary cause of California's spiking prices. |
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In 1956 Polish workers went on strike to protest against food shortages and other restrictions. |
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For all its crumbling decay, the faded splendour, its shortages and its collapsed economy, Cuba is a vibrant and thrilling place to visit. |
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The Inspiron shortages stemmed from supply problems with 8x CD-RW drives and 32MB graphics cards. |
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Charles Bowermcen, the team's leader was equally stupefied at the infrastructure around but saddened about the housing shortages. |
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The result was a supply chain with too many peaks and valleys and attendant shortages and overages, rather than a steady and predictable stream. |
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Manpower shortages and recruitment problems are creating serious difficulties in many areas of medicine. |
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The virus has resulted in staff shortages at several hospitals but has hit Hope Hospital badly. |
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Unlike traditional honours degrees, the courses are designed in conjunction with employers to meet skills shortages. |
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People's generosity and the ideology of reciprocity palliated the experiences of poverty, hard times, and corn shortages. |
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Some 23 provinces suffer power shortages as demand from industrial production surpasses the growth of generation capacity. |
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Some key commodities, however, look vulnerable to shortages and possible panic buying. |
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There's some talk they can't even light their Christmas trees because of the power shortages as a result, many say, of the deregulation. |
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Funding restrictions mean chronic staff shortages and cuts to services, producing long waiting lists and public health breakdowns. |
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Hospitals in Greater Manchester are spending millions of pounds hiring private doctors to help cope with chronic staff shortages. |
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They insist that a pay rise is essential to attract new medical personnel and overcome chronic staff shortages. |
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The Worcester House residence was rented by the university two years ago to ease chronic student accommodation shortages at the campus here. |
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When fuel shortages finally halted the 4th AD, the Germans marshaled reserves and planned a counteroffensive against the Third Army. |
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Despite food shortages, more and more new troops are drilled and lectured by the commanders. |
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The issue of skills shortages should not be a poisoned chalice for those politicians handed the responsibility of dealing with it. |
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Staff shortages depleted an Epsom fire crew on Sunday as officers rescued a couple from a blaze without assistance from an extra appliance. |
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They believe that the company's heavy use of groundwater is causing water shortages. |
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The lecture was a medieval solution to book shortages before printing was invented. |
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Some are developing environmentally sustainable power plants for rural areas that urgently need to address chronic electricity shortages. |
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The latest scam is to get us to sign a contract agreeing to longer shifts to cover up for staff shortages. |
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Chinese officials say cloud seeding has helped to relieve severe droughts and water shortages in cities. |
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The rainy seasons have been disastrous, to the point where there are serious shortages of drinking water. |
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For such people summer is congruous with added misery courtesy of the frequent power failures and water shortages. |
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One organization replaced another after virtually ignoring food shortages, and electrical power and public utilities remained inoperative. |
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Food rationing, shortages, bombed cities, damaged railways, such things were accepted as the inevitable concomitants of war. |
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The Simon Community, which runs a network of centres around the country for homeless people, is also experiencing acute shortages of volunteers. |
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Currently, American businesses are experiencing acute shortages of highly skilled IT professionals. |
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The Army continues to suffer acute shortages of staff and experienced personnel, and that is where the problem is. |
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By hitting production and refining capacity it has pushed up an already high oil price, lifted petrol prices and led to shortages. |
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Export subsidies help to provide them with a supply of products at reasonable prices and do much to alleviate food shortages. |
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The country restricts the movement of foreigners, and groups that distribute aid to alleviate its food shortages are barred from some areas. |
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A MAN whose vital heart surgery has been cancelled TEN times due to bed shortages at York Hospital was today due to go under the knife. |
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Agenda for Change also does nothing to redress staff shortages and the huge pressures on frontline staff. |
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We, as a nation, are always complaining of staff shortages in these establishments. |
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Petty theft and larceny are caused by poverty and frequent shortages of consumer goods, but violence is rare. |
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Despite shortages of certain items like instant coffee, sugar, and most of our milk powder, the food was lasting well. |
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If our mail arrived late we were advised this was due to staff shortages or holidays and the postman had to do another round first. |
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One watchdog group reported shortages of ballots, technical problems, and ballot stuffing. |
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Given that we use less than one percent of the total water sloshing around the planet, it does seem bizarre to suggest we are faced with shortages. |
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She serially blames the failure of our forces to uncover weapons of mass destruction on chaos, flawed intelligence, looting, and shortages of everything from gasoline to soap. |
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In the face of low pay and staff shortages, awards may seem cold comfort. |
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A terrible drought last year sparked chronic food shortages this year. |
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Problems such as physical isolation, unsurveyed land, and food and labour shortages impeded initial development and threatened the settlement's survival. |
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Equally, many of the shortages in public services such as the health service from nurses to radiographers and laboratory technicians will disappear. |
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Politicians will face a severe public backlash if power shortages occur. |
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In July it was estimated that at least 400 teacher and teaching assistant posts will be lost in the Yorkshire region over the next year because of cash shortages. |
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In October 1973, Arab states imposed an embargo on oil shipments to the US in response to the Arab-Israeli War, causing shortages and a doubling of prices. |
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The two leaders agreed to work together in advancing techniques for desalinating seawater to cope with perennial water shortages in Saudi Arabia, the official said. |
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If problems hit, spot shortages could develop and prices could leap again. |
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As winter sets in, as many as 5 million face dire food shortages. |
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In all cases surgery was postponed for non-clinical reasons, which can include staff shortages through illness, lack of equipment or beds, or bureaucratic blunders. |
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Fixing the prices by law just produces shortages here, unconsumed surpluses there, and black markets and inefficiency everywhere. |
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Pupil behaviour, excessive workload and bureaucracy, teacher shortages and the stream of new Government initiatives have all been cited as causes. |
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District councils are braced for severe cash shortages next year when changes designed to simplify funding are likely to leave them seriously out of pocket. |
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Many frontier inhabitants had perished, some cities had experienced food shortages, several colonies had been plunged into debt, and the citizenry groaned under heavy taxes. |
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Staff shortages and the poor utilization of support staff inhibit the provision of clinical pharmacy services in all but the main tertiary care hospitals. |
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There are rich mineral deposits and huge timber reserves, but these are largely unexploited, and lack of foreign exchange has led to food shortages. |
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Yorkshire schools are resorting to poaching teachers from each other as a mad scramble to beat the shortages and fill vacancies in time for September begins. |
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Water shortages are a problem plaguing many large cities in China. |
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The Association should encourage the decentralisation of multinational companies to economic blackspots and areas that do not suffer from labour shortages. |
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Although its four steam boilers and turbines are each rated at 160MW, all have been poorly maintained for many years, largely due to spare parts shortages. |
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As a result of government military offensives, the people have suffered from death and serious injury, food shortages, homelessness and internal displacement. |
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Staff shortages mean that resources are stretched to protect this native species, as well as the Philippine crocodile, the Calamian deer and the Palawan mouse deer. |
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Existing food shortages in the country were immediately exacerbated by the introduction of Ebola, for a variety of reasons. |
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They are suffering from acute shortages of food, medicine and clean water. |
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These shortages of low cost stock are most extreme in metropolitan Australia because of the higher numbers of low income households in the cities. |
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Mass employment and low interest rates, shortages, quotas and regulations were the staples of the British economy in the late 1940s and business failures were few. |
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The Command Paper makes clear that the Government will retain the flexibility to set up future quota-based low-skilled schemes to meet temporary labour shortages. |
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Venezuela faces shortages in everything from toilet paper to bread, but one of the most overlooked items is breast implants. |
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Secondly, there is a total ban on the hiring of casual tutors and lecturers, and on the creation of short-term contracts to cover staffing shortages. |
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Ordinary Pakistanis are struggling to hold themselves together, buffeted by inflation, energy shortages, and worry. |
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For several years, design professionals sat in the catbird seat, able to parlay personnel shortages in a boom market into significant pay and benefit packages. |
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Besides contending with occasional fruit shortages, the waxwing must also be wary of an excess of fermented fruit, as alcohol poisoning is a real threat. |
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In this climate of fear and shortages the support and generosity shown to the Harare branch by their fellow shipmates in the UK has meant a great deal. |
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Once, in 2013, Kyrgyzstan halted water for its reservoirs, and at least 11 regions of Uzbekistan suffered shortages. |
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In addition to shortages on armor plates there has also been a shortage on assault rifles, requiring the military to outfit one man per platoon with a cavalry saber. |
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This will temporarily address potential supply shortages but it will also mean higher prices as the UK becomes the tail-end Charlie of the western European gas market. |
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On the other hand, districts have used shortages to rationalize the employment of people who have not studied and do nor know the subjects they will teach. |
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Indeed, even coastal fisheries were severely hampered after 1941 by mounting shortages of cotton yarn, ramie, Manila hemp, and, most importantly, petroleum. |
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Wartime shortages, coupled with imperfections, limited the production of British currency. |
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Other factors contributing to such households are housing shortages and the need to generate income through both wage labor and subsistence production. |
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Men worked on road gangs, though before long labour shortages led Ottawa to encourage them to move eastwards to Central Canadian manufacturing plants. |
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Few comment on childcare shortages unless trumpeting their own exultant babysitting skills, even less on mothers' health, unless comparing personal symptoms. |
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A final and vital flaw in a market-basket dollar is that Gresham's law would result in perpetual shortages and surpluses of different commodities within the market basket. |
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If you call them soon enough, surety firms might be able to kick in some money to ease cash shortages as well as to share good ideas and offer lots of expertise. |
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The modest fall-off which ensued was followed by a more precipitate decline in World War I, the result of a cut in mine production occasioned by labour shortages. |
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And one of the county's commerce bosses claims one in five employers say a fifth of all current job vacancies cannot be filled because of skills shortages. |
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The export created shortages within India and several million tonnes then had to be reimported by the Indian government at the world market price. |
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Repeated drought-related power shortages resulting from overdependence on hydro-electric sources mean diversification is necessary. |
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The port at Ostia was part of Claudius' solution to the constant grain shortages that occurred in winter, after the Roman shipping season. |
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The women were responding to the harsh economic situations they faced, especially bread shortages. |
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The price ceiling was well below the laissez faire price that demand would have supported, so there were always shortages. |
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He returned to Britain in 1946, to find a country still beset by wartime rationing and shortages. |
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The style was affected by the labour shortages caused by the plague as architects designed less elaborately to cope. |
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In the early days of colonization, many European settlers were subject to food shortages, disease, and attacks from Native Americans. |
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Towards the end of the war conditions deteriorated rapidly on the home front, with severe food shortages reported in all urban areas. |
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Europe's economies were recovering slowly, as unemployment and food shortages led to strikes and unrest in several nations. |
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More 'training places' are needed from medical school onwards to counter staff shortages. |
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There are significant supply shortages in a number of staff groups and geographical areas. |
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Artificially low prices often cause rationing and shortages and discourage future investment, resulting in yet further shortages. |
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He also anticipated modern concerns with fuel shortages and industrial pollution. |
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After declaring war on Britain, France was blockaded by the Royal Navy, which caused shortages that worsened the problem of inflation. |
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A thriving black market existed in the centre of the city as banks experienced shortages of local currency for exchange. |
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In the Highlands there were shortages and very few spoke the Gaelic of the local population. |
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Teacher shortages continued and problems arose in areas where teachers who spoke no Gaelic attempted to teach children who had no English. |
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After the Second World War, Glasgow, already suffering from chronic housing shortages, incurred bomb damage from the war. |
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Oral history provides evidence for how housewives in a modern industrial city handled shortages of money and resources. |
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In the fleet itself, complaints were beginning to be made in 1908 about underfunding and shortages of crews for the new ships. |
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Competitiveness of the EU fishing industry has been affected by overcapacity and shortages of fish to catch. |
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The farming communities faced food shortages that year by losing their grain and livestock. |
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Due to shortages of personnel, many small craft crossed the Channel with civilian crews. |
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Wolf packs are typically settled, and usually only leave their accustomed ranges during severe food shortages. |
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The previous dry season leads to food shortages into the wet season, as the crops have yet to mature. |
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Cannibalism in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic may have occurred because of food shortages. |
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The implementation of mechanical harvesting is often stimulated by changes in labor laws, labor shortages, and bureaucratic complications. |
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The combination of economic and demographic factors led to hunger, housing shortages and a lack of work for young people. |
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Disputes with Russia briefly stopped all gas supplies to Ukraine in 2006 and again in 2009, leading to gas shortages in other countries. |
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In 1991, the government liberalised most prices to combat widespread product shortages, and was successful in overcoming the problem. |
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Social unrest continued and was aggravated during World War I by military defeat and food shortages in major Soviet cities. |
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Due to ongoing shortages of US coins in some regions, shillings continued to circulate well into the 19th century. |
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Drought and limited rainfall contribute to shortages in the nation's water supply. |
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Today, Cuba has universal health care and despite persistent shortages of medical supplies, there is no shortage of medical personnel. |
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The needs of the Papal court were such that there was a measurable rise in the frequency of money shortages wherever the court went. |
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Most island families grow food in their gardens, and food shortages are rare. |
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An attempt to move men and supplies east failed due to shortages and inefficiency. |
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Disruption caused by the war and the colonization hampered the traditional economy, and possibly led to shortages of food and materials. |
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Yet as cities grow in these warmer regions of North America, they are increasingly forced to deal with the major issue of water shortages. |
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Tight planning in Bulgaria industry meant continuing shortages in other parts of its economy. |
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Between 1950 and 1975, worsening shortages were generally caused by a fall in the proportion of all investment made housing. |
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The invention of the Burton process for thermal cracking doubled the yield of gasoline, which helped alleviate the shortages. |
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Tom Clancy of Elan Recruitment thinks that staff shortages in the regions could be as severe as in Dublin. |
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By 1791, Slater had some machinery in operation, despite shortages of tools and skilled mechanics. |
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The result of diminished river flow can be power shortages in areas that depend heavily on hydroelectric power. |
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Many new business centers and office buildings have been built in recent years, but Moscow still experiences shortages in office space. |
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The mines reverted to care and maintenance for a while due to labour shortages in First World War. |
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Fuel shortages, power cuts and communications black outs are all making the delivery of aid more challenging. |
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The shortages have appeared most conspicuously in recent month in the form of long bread lines in Khartoum and elsewhere. |
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To be sure, Argentina's tampon squeeze is a far cry from shortages plaguing Venezuela and Cuba. |
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The writers stated that they were constantly understaffed and unable to take time off because of the need to fill in for the shortages. |
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With world population increasing unstoppably food shortages are a looming danger. |
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Plants vegetatively long having disappeared, the region is plagued by shortages or recurrent famines. |
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There is a one-to-one relationship between days with large cash shortages and his workdays. |
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The shortages affect both the poor and the well-off, in surprising ways. |
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There are no serious long-term shortages of fossil-fuel supply once the interconvertibility of oil and other fossil fuels is taken into account. |
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Some soldiers have complained about kit shortages, with several saying they had been issued with flak jackets but not the ceramic plates. |
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Faced with the compounding pressures of production targets and skills shortages, companies are now more pressed than ever to ensure HSE remains the industry's prime priority. |
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Without a government-funding mechanism, the GNP will disappear and the hard work fighting for its establishment as a strategy to reduce nursing shortages will be lost. |
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This will lead to a deindustrialisation in Pakistan as there were shortages of energy for the industrial sector, along with high cost of doing business. |
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The Assembly approves bills that would regulate power plant outages and expand utility programs that cut rates for big power users who turn off electricity during shortages. |
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Although shortages in many health care fields are listed in the report, the area with the greatest shortage is rehabilitation, specifically occupational therapy. |
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Before the shortage of succinylcholine was resolved earlier this year, shortages of the agent also resulted in postponed surgeries at Veterans Administration Medical Centers. |
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As the 2013 deadline approaches, we expect coder shortages to worsen. |
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These initial approvals, once installed, will help to avert the type of gasoline shortages and logistical and transportation challenges New Jerseyans faced following Sandy. |
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He was very instrumental in the cross training of troposcatter operators and multichannel operators during a time when there were critical MOS shortages. |
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According to Trendle and the ANTA skills shortages will occur when there are factors that prevent the wage changing to bring supply and demand for the skill into equilibrium. |
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A construction boom aided by low steel prices helped lead to supply shortages and a trucking strike has left stocks of cement undelivered in many parts of the country. |
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This did not mean any change in status for Italian POWs however, since due to the labour shortages in the UK and the USA, they were retained as POWs there. |
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The aim was to achieve a reduction in the number of prisoners held, while at the same time alleviating shortages of skilled personnel in the home country. |
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Rationing was instituted, and there were food and fuel shortages. |
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The parlous American economy was thrown into chaos with prices soaring and unexpected shortages causing hardship in New England which was considering secession. |
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Thereafter, its citizens enjoyed a higher quality of life and fewer shortages in the supply of goods than those in the Soviet Union, Poland or Romania. |
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The steep price rises in the Spanish Netherlands were sometimes accompanied by food shortages, however, leading to an eventual relaxation of this embargo. |
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Lately there have been extreme labour shortages in the region due to runaway economic growth which caused wages to rise by about 20 to 30 percent in the past two years. |
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The city is challenged by pollution, weak sewage systems, a weak storm drain system that led to massive floodings, heavy traffic, epidemics, and water shortages. |
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This process was developed in the UK during World War II, when wartime shortages of many essential drugs encouraged innovation in pharmaceutical processing. |
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They had the hard life of physical labour and food shortages. |
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After the breakup from the USSR in 1991, energy shortages, political uncertainty, trade obstacles and weak administrative capacity contributed to the decline of economy. |
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Some of these shortages resulted in food riots and even deadly stampedes. |
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The county can suffer both from localised flooding caused by heavy rainfall and from water shortages caused by prolonged periods of below average rainfall. |
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Water restrictions are frequently in place in many regions and cities of Australia in response to chronic shortages due to urban population increases and localised drought. |
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Native Americans formed leagues in response to food shortages. |
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He envisioned 15,000 emplacements manned by 300,000 troops, but due to shortages, particularly of concrete and manpower, most of the strongpoints were never built. |
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The shortages sparked riots in which several people were killed. |
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Many existing pipelines in America are close to reaching their capacity, prompting some politicians representing northern states to speak of potential shortages. |
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Toward the end of the 2nd Century BC, Rome started to experience manpower shortages brought about by property and financial qualifications to join the army. |
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Private sector development has lagged due to human capital shortages, infrastructure weakness, an incomplete legal system, and an inefficient regulatory environment. |
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Fuel shortages caused long lines of cars at petrol stations. |
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Brideshead's selection as the American Book of the Month swelled its US sales to an extent that dwarfed those in Britain, which was affected by paper shortages. |
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Prompt action is needed to counter funding and staff shortages and staff feel like 'collateral damage' when struggling over rising demand and budget shortages. |
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He envisioned 15,000 emplacements manned by 300,000 troops, but shortages, particularly of concrete and manpower, meant that most of the strongpoints were never built. |
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Later this was made worse by fuel shortages for pilot training. |
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In Germany, civilian deaths were 474,000 higher than in peacetime, due in large part to food shortages and malnutrition that weakened resistance to disease. |
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Many sites of bombed buildings, when cleared of rubble, were cultivated to grow vegetables to ease wartime food shortages and were known as victory gardens. |
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The government took steps to head off summertime shortages of gasoline. |
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Apart from the expensiveness of everything, there were recurrent shortages of this and that, which, of course, always hit the poor rather than the rich. |
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