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The prediction is for a real shortage in those trades - carpenters and plumbers especially - because of the age of those workers. Within 10 years, there will be a huge retirement in the skilled labor ranks.

We'll face a critical shortage in the next couple of years if we don't do anything. We thought housing prices would have cooled by now, but they haven't. And that's bad news.

Unfortunately, the consumer really doesn't have any other choice. You have to pay what's at the pump, and places like Hawaii have decided to go to the legislature and say put a cap on prices. The problem you have there is gas lines. Because companies selling fuel, they'll simply sell it somewhere else and then you'll have a shortage in your jurisdiction.

You have the most acute health-care workforce shortage in the country.

The overall supply of crude is very adequate and there is no risk of a shortage out there. This is a big change from 2004 and the early part of 2005.

We admit that there is a problem ... But sometimes business uses skills shortage as an excuse not to invest.

There is a tremendous shortage of pilots in India.

We definitely tried a bit too hard at times but the upside is that there was no shortage of effort against what was obviously quality opposition.

The fact that their pricing mechanism is market-related minimizes the risk that a physical shortage would arise.

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

The real problem from a consumer perspective is a shortage of refined product, and it is unclear to me how they are going to get crude from storage facilities on the Gulf Coast to refineries on the Gulf Coast,

There are many plans to build refineries, but with rising construction costs and a shortage of project engineers, expansion isn't that easy. Until this new capacity comes on stream, oil market swings will depend on the U.S. situation.

We came in higher but couldn't hold it, which underscores the weakness of the market. The overall supply of crude is very adequate and there is no risk of a shortage out there.

This remarkable development trend with the growing shortage will make China's power market, at least in the next 15 years, a huge opportunity to the international corporations in this field.

There is a cement shortage and we're busy.

There is a big shortage of chicken. I am getting frantic calls.

There has been a lifeguard shortage for a while, so it's good that young people are into it.

We knew there was a shortage for this type of facility in Greeley so that's why we built it for the community and for us.

To say we shouldn't use it because there may be a shortage once in awhile isn't a valid argument.

We are short somewhere between 290,000 and 350,000 IT workers, but no one knows for sure. It looks like it's both a shortage of people and a mismatch of skills in the marketplace that produce vacancies. But it doesn't matter what the cause is if you can't fill jobs that support income and revenue for your company -- the effect is there.

With apologies to Frank Capra, it was a wonderful year for underwriting. There's no shortage of demand for money.

The question of shortage will be determined by how soon (we) get on line.

We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants.

This shortage is not affecting major projects. Providence Stadium has more than 190 tons of cement in stock and the contractors have enough cement on order from their suppliers to complete the work that they are doing.

There is probably, if anything, a shortage of availability of styles.

With such a critical driver shortage facing the industry, now, more than ever, trucking is consistently looking toward recruiting and retaining a pool of experienced workers.

Famine is not caused by a shortage of food; it's caused by a shortage of justice,

But North Korea is very much suffering from economic difficulties, especially shortage of food. So social order is very much wavering.

The good news is this shortage is temporary,

While unit demand is going up at roughly 50 percent, the bit demand, meaning the number of wafers we have to make, is going up at about 100 percent. I believe that's going to keep the shortage going at least through this year, and well into next year - possibly through all of next year.

While there's no shortage of individual piece-part products out there to help manage, search, secure and store information, companies drowning in data need a holistic approach if they have any hope of using their information for real business advantage.

While the Mississippi River itself continues to be a major hub of commerce, port facilities and agri-business are currently plagued by a number of problems that include a shortage of barges, workers and truck drivers at a critical time in the nation's grain harvest,

You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.

We've had that shortage for a long time. It's the most important thing before us.

We're suffering from a shortage of rigorous ideas about what's happening to function in the human brain in these diseases.

There is nothing close to a physical shortage going on here. Instead, what the market is holding here is a significant, and in fact growing, implied risk premium.

There is no shortage of wonderful ideas, but it is big step going from the idea to a product on the shelf.

There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings.

There is no shortage of funds from the investment community, since people believe that this is going to happen. If anything, too much funding is available, because it leads to some crazy things.

There is no shortage of food on the planet,

There is no shortage of candidates for elimination. There is only the shortage of political will to make the difficult decisions.

There is no shortage of actual physical supplies; what there is is a shortage of spare capacity.

We've got a horrible labor shortage here - whether it's legal or illegal workers.

We have a crisis right now. Business people right now are saying we have a skill shortage and not enough scientists and mathematicians. If you don't send boys to college, you're never going to get more scientists.

We found that the right information doesn't always get to the right people in a timely manner. Customers are struggling with increased workloads, expanding responsibilities, and a shortage of qualified, experienced manpower, and it's difficult for them to regularly make time to review and monitor the performance of their chiller plant.

What struck me is when I found out there's a shortage for African-American blood types,

We got started just before the hurricanes. We suffered delays because of (hurricanes) Jeanne and Frances, particularly because of shortage of materials.

We feel the wait time issue has to be dealt with urgently, partly because of the resource shortage in different areas and partly because of the suffering of patients,

We are trying to identify the barriers to solving the shortage of health care workers and to come up with some proposed solutions. We would like to be collectively responsible for providing more and better-trained health care professionals for the region.

We see a shortage of IT workers and think we'll meet our needs by importing foreign workers. But we don't bite the bullet to make the changes we need to make here in the U.S..

Every time I give a talk, I ask the audience - especially if it's kids - how many want to go to Mars. At least half raise their hands. I don't think there's going to be any shortage of volunteers.

Even though we're not going to be getting into a water shortage in the next year, we need to start planning. It's taken other counties more than 10 years to put everything together and get everyone on board.

At the moment there's no shortage of fuel.

At the moment the market is stagnant, but I think in another four or five weeks it will take off again. There is becoming a land shortage in the Four Corners area, but developers will just look for land farther south. Anywhere where foreign owners can get to Disney within a half hour or so is still going to be very popular.

Every ambulance service in Kansas will tell you that shortage of personnel is a primary concern.

There's a glass shortage now because there was a lot of glass blown out by the hurricanes that went through here last year. We're working with a vendor now to get the glass replaced.

There's a freight shortage at the moment. They're going to struggle getting a lot of it over there.

There's no shortage of storage 70 percent of a PC hard drive is typically free space.

There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated.

There's no shortage of issues for unions to organize around in high-tech--job insecurity, the threat of outsourcing. It's not an issue of whether there'd be responsiveness.

There's no shortage of information. You have to figure out what's important.

There's no shortage of effort. We just need to get the puck in the net.

There's not only a shortage of nurses but also a critical shortage of nursing instructors. That is an ongoing problem.

There's not a shortage of supply. It's a transitional issue.

The worry is the shortage of dollars. The market is watching their reserves position.

The worker shortage is more severe this year than last and will be more severe next year.

The shortage of selling communities, coupled with some softening of demand in a number of markets, negatively impacted our contract results. It appears we may be entering a period of more moderate home price increases, more typical of the past decade than the past two years.

The ... shortage of refining capacity means that the wholesale price of petrol has not fallen as fast as crude.

The shortage of IT workers has changed the nature of the position of HR (human resources) director, for one, because employee retention has become almost an overwhelming issue, ... Companies might have seen a 10-to-12 percent turnover rate a few years ago, if lucky -- the turnover rate is now more like 20 percent plus. People are stealing employees from one another left and right, and employee loyalty, frankly, runs only as deep as what the company can offer.

The shortage of employees is due to sales growth and retiree replacement. There also have been misperceptions about the dealership work environment. Dealerships have become high-tech facilities requiring highly skilled staff and needing top-notch employees with computer and technical skills. Today's new vehicles are very sophisticated and so are our customers. Internet savvy consumers do research before visiting the dealership and demand first-class service and attention.

The shortage is in gasoline, so you would need to add huge amounts of crude oil to have even a minor impact on prices. This is a time when the shortage has nothing to do with crude oil, and OPEC cannot fix it.

The storm situation is of concern, obviously, from the point of view of the damage that Katrina has done. Going into the fourth quarter, refineries are going to be the main issue. There's no shortage of crude, so I don't think more output from OPEC is going to be necessary at this time.

The Senate has a plan to address the public safety crisis created by a shortage of correctional officers in our state prisons. We have the money to fund the plan and we are going to act,

The solar shortage will be most pronounced in 2006, and we anticipate only modest solar industry production growth of 9 percent.

Rumors of refinery problems have created aggressive trading on the surplus fuel market, where independent station operators buy from. Although there is no shortage of gasoline, the day trading is driving prices higher.

Right now we are aware that the fuel shortage is less severe, ... But the pricing is going to stay there. I just think it's wrong to have county vehicles come back to Burgaw to refuel. We've got to start thinking about this.

Principals and other administrators tend to have a good idea about people who could benefit the process. We're fortunate to live in a community where there is no shortage of people willing to help.

Our customers have called and e-mailed us, requesting these odds be available to them during the trials. They are very interested in the outcome for these cases, Our customers like to bet on what they see and hear on television, and this case has no shortage of media attention and hype.

Northern Virginia has a large immigrant population, many of whom help fill the severe labor shortage in blue collar jobs like construction and landscaping. Do you support using public money to build a day laborer site like Herndon did?

A full-time campus officer system might be difficult due to the city's current shortage of police forces.

Speculators pushed the prices beyond even the most bullish estimates, because they exaggerated (supply shortage fears), but now I think we see the party's over.

Space Invaders proved so addictive that it not only inaugurated an entire video game paradigm, it caused a nationwide coin shortage in Japan

The more efficient we are, the better we use each drop of water, the less likely we are to be hurt by a shortage because we're going to be able to use the water we do have as efficiently as possible.

The momentum is very much on the side of domestic equities, and these are ideal market conditions for companies to offer initial public offerings. There seems to be no shortage of cash in the marketplace.

Companies in the Pacific region, especially those in the real estate and construction industries, are adding staff to support growth initiatives. As the competition for candidates intensifies, many firms are experiencing a shortage of skilled accounting professionals and, as a result, find they must offer higher salaries and better benefits to secure the best people.

And there's a shortage of labor in New Orleans and if we don't get a lot of volunteers going down there, some of the stuff won't get done.

As far as I know, the hotel project at Providence, close to the stadium, has enough cement in supply at the site. The shortage is basically affecting the small man rather than big companies.

The bottom line is that there's a huge demand. We have a shortage of 280,000 housing units in Los Angeles, and if you said 'affordable housing units,' that number would be even bigger.

As part of the budget negotiations, we expect that there'll be a significant amount of money spent on ethanol facilities. There seems to be a shortage of ethanol.

That's not to say that elementary teachers are not important, but we know we have a shortage in the math and science areas.

The modem shortage was well documented. We knew it was going to bring the subscriber numbers in short. But they still managed to come in above the top and bottom line (forecast), which I thought was pretty good.

This is excellent news. Florida for the last couple of years really experienced a shortage in the amount of available cement products.

This is the first time we?re saying something like this because we haven?t seen this kind of increase before. We know there?s no shortage of crude oil right now. Oil inventory data shows there is more oil available now than a year ago.

This is not the first time that the world has 'run out of oil. It's more like the fifth. Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of the oil industry.

This is really much more important than OPEC supply as their spare capacity is largely heavy and sour and the real shortage is capacity to upgrade such fuels anyway.

This country is on the verge of facing a substantial shortage of physicians.

This drive is going to help countless of other people that are also in need of blood. Whether Matt is going to get it or not ? which he is in need of it also ? it's going to help countless people that need it, and there is a shortage of blood and this is a great turn out.

This article reaffirms the fact that there is a shortage of drilling rigs especially in Colorado and we are in a position to help satisfy that demand.

A lot of guys were really upset. Looking at what we face as a country right now, with escalating energy prices, the shortage of natural gas, a lot of guys believe that this is our last best chance to increase American production of energy.

Although we know there is no shortage in (oil) supplies and reasons of high prices are attributed to factors related to refining, geopolitical or climate reasons, the organization will play a role in stabilizing prices and markets,