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I'm not saying that a disorderly correction to global imbalances is certain to happen. Nor am I saying that the global economy is inevitably headed for a deflationary shortfall in demand. What I am saying is that, as prudent policymakers, we must not rely on good fortune to help us muddle through. We need to get going on these policy issues now, before it is too late to take remedial action.

David Dodge

Sarbanes-Oxley requires that public companies report these exposures on their 10Qs, so the reserves shortfall is right out there in the open. Helping reduce the possibility of a shareholders' lawsuit over leaving your largest risk uninsured could be called a bonus that comes with the policy, no extra charge.

Scott Pales

The reason this December shortfall won't be a shock to the 2006 budget is because the projected sales-tax numbers for December had been adjusted during the year to be more conservative. This was about what we expected.

Tim Burke

China Top 50 Banks. Capitalization across the system is improving but still low. The resolution of the nonperforming asset problems of the major banks will further improve system capitalization and make good the shortfall in loan loss provisions.

Ryan Tsang

It looks like [the shortfall] was purely in the fixed-income area.

Michael Flanagan

Rising fuel prices have left NB Power little choice but to raise rates to cover a forecasted revenue shortfall of $126 million for 2006-07.

David Hay

We expect Microsoft's proposal to fall far short of what the government would be willing to accept and what the government will ask the court to impose on Microsoft. Despite the third fiscal quarter shortfall, we believe now, more than ever, would be the wrong time to sell shares of MSFT.

George Godfrey

Fuel prices have more than doubled, and we're anticipating a $6 million shortfall in the 2006 budget year.

Justin Jones

Every county should have resolutions like this to put pressure on the governor. Overall, we are disappointed with the lack of leadership Pataki has shown in the matter. It creates a huge financial shortfall.

Ken Brewer

There is no budget shortfall per se. We were challenged in putting together the budget year because of the loss of federal funding.

Jim Hardy

We had a shortfall of about $80,000.

Don Capshaw

I think the government feels it's too politically sensitive. I don't see it as a realistic prospect for a long time, given we've just passed the Human Tissue Act. So, we still have the shortfall, hence discussions about buying organs.

Dr Graeme Laurie

The reality is that this shortfall can be fairly easily met by industry.

Noshir Kaka

Even a small shortfall in the export market can become a price-driving factor.

James Robb

There were some fears it was being pulled off the shelves and this is not the case. There is a shortfall, but it is not just at the VA. All pharmacies are experiencing it.

Jim Benson

That leaves us with a shortfall of $1.45 million, ... There are no signs that the refugees are intending to return home in the immediate future and it is crucial that donors respond to our request for funds to assist this population.

Jennifer Pagonis

We've studied this issue enough, ... It's past time. Our state budget has a $1 billion shortfall.

David Boswell

In order to cover the potential shortfall of $3.8 million caused by the delay in receiving the gaming revenues, I will be forced to eliminate nearly $4 million worth of desperately needed positions from the city's budget proposal for 2006.

Tom Murphy

Our shortfall in revenue is not due to weakness in the Human Resources market, ... The year 2000 is a transition year for our Human Resources business, particularly U.S. payroll. Due to our focus on U.S. payroll, cross-selling efforts with Ceridian Benefits Services were deferred, which negatively impacted revenues.

Ronald Turner

I can get salt somewhere else. There are different companies. I have it placed and I can get it. So I'm not really concerned about their shortfall. It will be the same price as what we are paying through the COG bid.

Leo Mitkoski

Longer sales cycles were what caused the shortfall.

Peter Currie

It appears that Intel's significant shortfall in Europe is company-specific, although the exact cause of the shortfall is still unclear.

Charles Boucher

At $40, (Bank of America) trades at the low end of the valuation range for the CSFB Large Cap Banks, discounting a material earnings shortfall.

Susan Roth

We hope the Legislature takes to heart our previous warnings about the budget shortfall and the need for fiscal responsibility.

Brendan Gilfillan

The fourth quarter was particularly back-end loaded and a significant amount of business closed in the last week on terms less favorable than expected, ... The resulting sales shortfall and compressed margins became apparent after the end of the quarter.

Mark Sanders

We look at that as a running start toward a cumulative event that will allow us to shrink the $13 million shortfall.

William Brandt

I am very disappointed in our fourth quarter performance. ... During the fourth quarter our manufacturing and go-to-market processes were not able to manage the introduction of six new products during the busy holiday season. This operational issue accounted for the majority of our revenue shortfall.

Gregg Hammann

Basically, we looked at a number of different likely culprits that various folks think might be responsible for this shortfall.

Stuart Ellis

The difficult economic climate affected our business more than we anticipated late in our April quarter, ... Our business in Asia fell below our expectations and Discreet continued to experience selling pressure. Despite the shortfall, we remain confident in our strategy to help customers gain greater value from digital design data and look forward to providing more details on our results call.

Carol Bartz

ARC International continues to benefit from the industry's increasing adoption of configurability and our leadership position within this market. The environment for intellectual property licensing is improving, and despite the revenue shortfall, ARC continues to make good progress towards achieving its strategic goals.

Carl Schlachte

We are not allowing the current shortfall to impede the process.

Michelle Lee

From our perspective, we believe the shortfall will be primarily concentrated in the original coin business.

William Brandt

The shortfall in precipitation is not boding well for a good fall foliage display. The trees have been unable to manufacture the large quantities of nutrients necessary to produce the nice, brilliant colors we hope for.

Jerry Stenger

It's clear Rocky Hill does get the short end of the stick ... I think it's an election year ploy...and someone will have to pay for that $700,000 [shortfall in money from the state].

Barbara Surwilo

The good news is that sales for January seem to be right on track with our previous forecast of 4 percent -- not enough to make up for the holiday shortfall, but a good sign nonetheless.

Leonard Riggio

The principal reason for Citigroup's shortfall versus consensus was the 10 cents of charges related to Latin America, which were expected. The order of magnitude was harder to ascertain but the fact that they were going to have to take additional charges was expected.

Catherine Murray

This is especially poor judgment and poor timing by the school board in light of the expected $17 million shortfall they keep telling us about.

Laura Rabalais

Our best projections indicate we're going to have a shortfall of about $400 million. We're still determining how much Wilma will cost.

Carrie Martin

Business groups have been very smart about trying to change the subject from outsourcing and off-shoring to the supposed shortfall in U.S. engineers. There's really no serious shortage of engineers in this country.

Ron Hira

We are currently analyzing the reasons for the shortfall, and we will discuss these, as well as the actions we are taking to drive improved results, at the time of our quarterly earnings conference call.

Joseph Mcgrath

Earnings per share in the first half are likely to be significantly below last year and it is not clear that any profit shortfall in the first half will be fully recovered in the second.

Kevin Lomax

We believe Oracle's shortfall is an omen for other names in our universe.

Gretchen Teagarden

He can point fingers as much as he wants. It's not up to the federal government to cover the shortfall.

Ontario Liberal

This is a material shortfall. It's a sign of some structural problems at Netscape.

David Readerman

We do not believe Cisco will pre-announce a shortfall for the April quarter.

Nikos Theodosopoulos

We are currently projecting the box office to achieve 76 percent of capacity versus a budget of 80 percent, resulting in a shortfall of $4,303,000.

Joseph Volpe

The insistence by CBC on the need to be able to hire more temporary workers can be traced directly to the corporation's serious funding shortfall.

Arthur Lewis

There is a significant shortfall of funds in many affected countries ... which will seriously hamper their prevention and control efforts.

Qiao Zonghuai

We found a significant budget shortfall in Michigan that forced us to make difficult choices. These prisoners can be housed in alternative facilities at a savings to the taxpayer.

Greg Bird

Quarterly revenues were lower than expected due to a shortfall in software license sales. We are not satisfied with these results. However, our emphasis will continue to be on selling our more than 70 distributed products, which tend to be smaller transactions.

Beth Chappell

I don't think anyone ever anticipated this kind of shortfall.

Dave Cobb

They have been moving toward just-in-time style of production, so I'm sure that led to the shortfall.

Eric Rothdeutsch

It would be very unusual for workers to make up for the shortfall and it might certainly be a good way to shock people into saving more -- tell them they now have to put aside 12 percent of the earnings.

Edward Wolff