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It just became an accepted part of the culture. If you were National Guard or Reserve, or NCOs, noncommissioned officers, you were going to spend a lot of money out of your pocket. These are bureaucratic failures, but when they make mistakes like this, guys die. There has been progress made, but we're still seeing serious shortages.

Paul Rieckhoff

We released three bulk lots, ... There have been spot shortages because Chiron got out of the gate late.

Julie Zawisza

People are already worried about supplies for the driving season, even this early on. There's going to be a price reaction if there are any signs of shortages.

Andrew Harrington

Welcome to the supply shock. The economy has outgrown last year's conservative expectations by a mile, generating shortages and widespread price hikes that are large and will have to be passed on to consumers.

Russell Sheldon

There are shortages expected by 2010 and perhaps 2011. We need to meet high natural gas demand because it is the cleanest burning fuel.

Gary Hale

We are still experiencing spot shortages, which are more severe in some parts of the country than others.

Michael Fleming

We are very concerned about these shortages and are seeking input from today's nurses to help us more effectively train and attract new workers to the health care field.

Roberta Gassman

We are responding to the shortages and taking appropriate measures, ... It's critical to keep enough fuel on hand to provide essential services until supplies are back up. We ask people to bear with us at this time.

Tom Robinson

In general, you have to have a pretty serious market power concern before you go down this road [of price controls], because the chances of causing shortages and causing gas lines are quite significant. Hawaii seems to have designed this so it's much less likely to happen, and Hawaii has a credible argument to be made that they face a significant market power problem.

Severin Borenstein

We do not expect any shortages. As far as we know, there is equitable distribution across the country. We have not heard reports of anyone not having vaccine at all.

Lola Russell

We've got about 200 tons on hand. It's coming but they said there might be some shortages due to the barges. Most of them like Louisiana and everything else down there. They're using them down there.

Leo Mitkoski

There is a situation in the market where people are panic buying, creating some shortages, but these are temporary and have been resolved. At the moment there are no supply issues and we are continuing to issue stocks that are with us.

Mahesha Ranasoma

Sturdy product inventories should help to temper market fears of energy shortages, and should help cajole broader energy prices lower in the next few weeks.

Rakesh Shankar

Industries that are experiencing labor shortages, such as health care, are very focused on this segment.

Deborah Russell

The hospital needs space. We have some short-term shortages in terms of acute care needs, and as we looked into the future, it was our assessment that the acute care needs were going to increase rather than decrease.

Jon Friedenberg

Natural gas supplies have been severely disrupted in North America and the shortages took heating oil and crude prices higher.

Keiichi Sano

I am very concerned, given the destructive damage done by (Hurricanes) Katrina and Rita, that the United States must be closer to starting to see significant product shortages than we've seen since 1979.

Matthew Simmons

Demand is through the roof. Although we're making more and selling more Palms than ever before, people are already thinking ahead for Christmas because they've heard about shortages.

Marlene Somsak

The developed economies are going to face acute shortages of working-age people - they will have either import people or export work. The further you project the time horizon, the more inevitable it gets.

Kiran Karnik

It's possible we're going to see shortages here and there.

Michael Butler

Besides the shortages of foreign currency, the sector is also facing problems relating to insufficient revenue generated from the sale of gold through the official system.

David Murangari

And physician shortages may get worse, as hospital expansions create new demand for specialists already in short supply.

Patrick Powers

During the past quarter we faced a number of challenges that impacted our PC business, including component supply shortages in the notebook business and aggressive pricing by competitors in the government sector.

Joel Kocher

It's no secret we have an economy based on construction. I don't know how we'll escape labor and materials shortages.

Rebecca Holmes

Their recommendation would go a long way toward meeting our current shortages. Athletic fields are our number one need right now.

Cathy Brendel

The problem we are facing is huge. The acute demand is leading to supply-side shortages.

Noshir Kaka

We do not have any tomato shortages and we do not anticipate any because of our good planning. We have contingency plans if there are any issues, but we haven't had any.

Lisa Howard

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market, ... Accelerated approval has allowed us to evaluate and approve Fluarix in record time so that we can make available additional safe and effective flu vaccines.

Lester Crawford

The material shortages have had far more effect than any cost increase due to impact fees.

Jim Folkman

The shortages in stores will become visible in early September when people are back from holiday and shops start selling the autumn and winter collections.

Ralph Kamphöner

If we produce 20 percent of the country's wheat in this little number here, you've got to believe the impact it's going to have on the national production, ... I mean we're going to run into food shortages no doubt in my mind, for political gain.

Chris Thorne

It means that anything that upsets refineries, whether it's a hurricane or a refinery accident, causes shortages of gasoline.

Peter Clark

All you need is a little hoarding to cause regional shortages, ... This is what we went through in the 1970s when motorists rushed to filling stations and filled tanks because they feared supplies would run out.

Michael Lynch

COAG has taken important steps in helping the alleviation of skill shortages by agreeing to this raft of reforms.

Heather Ridout

We anticipate there will be some shortages of carpenters, electricians and others.

Ken Ford

Countries in Asia are experiencing serious water shortages.

Apichart Anukularmphai

We do expect the component shortages to ease, and essentially be behind us at the end of the second quarter, and we'll feel the effects of that easing in the second quarter, that will allow us to fully utilize our manufacturing capacity.

Merle Gilmore

It is far more critical this year because people have now sustained four years of food shortages and are living hand to mouth.

Mike Huggins

That was the argument for the universal 55 mph speed limit during the gas shortages of the '70s.

Alex Fowler

We are aware of distortions in the market that have arisen from price controls. These controls have contributed to the shortages of basic commodities on the open market, with the same goods resurfacing on the parallel market.

Herbert Murerwa

By the beginning of December, flu vaccine will be available, though we may still experience mild shortages in scattered areas around the country.

Gregory Poland

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.'

H. E. Martz

Adding the Games may heat up the economy to the point where it runs up against shortages in materials or labor. The effect may be a higher cost of living across the province, cost over-runs on Games projects and intensifying price and wage pressures in coming years.

Derek Holt

The customer savings analysis shows the details of the savings that are equal to 22 percent or $40,553 for the term of the contract. Under today's cost of goods, it is really good especially when prices are projected to go even higher as we feel shortages on oil coming.

Ben Cox

We were moving toward making it more of a recreational opportunity than a commercial one. Now there really aren't any shortages of alligators -- we're well past the endangered species time, so we're ready to expand.

Joy Hill

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market.

Lester Crawford

The limited coverage of forest in the upper reaches of the river results from financial shortages, thus Guangdong should give financial support, as it will also benefit.

Chen Kaizhi

There is a shortage of pharmacists nationwide, and it's no different in this area, ... With the medical field expansions we've had in past few years, plus the corollary with shortages, it makes sense to use trained, experienced personnel.

Pat O'connor

This has given the South African public and the international community the impression that government is unwilling to be open and accountable on the issue of electricity shortages.

Hendrik Schmidt

India continues to face severe power shortages that translate into substantial losses to the economy. It stifles development of industry and commerce, increases the cost of doing business, and reduces productivity.

Michael Carter

Growth will be about 16% this year. That's good, but not spectacular. I don't see any shortages this year.

Will Strauss

The semiconductor industry will, we believe, experience period capacity shortages for these leading-edge production wafers. As some of the end markets for our products begin a steep growth phase, we will need every wafer we can get.

Eli Harari

It's definitely going to create different shortages of lumber and concrete and other materials. A lot of depends on how much they want to rebuild.

Ed Epping