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there was a troubling shortage of supplies for the troops overseas this year
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With a serious labor shortage and the growing IT skills gap impacting industries and regions across the globe, companies must get creative about finding new talent.
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Allie Danziger, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
This is also a major factor in the inventory shortage problem the market is facing.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Decades of racist redlining, predatory mortgage lending, and the criminalization of poverty have combined with a housing shortage to create an epidemic of Black homelessness.
—Carly Stern, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
Doctors had been prescribing these drugs based on whichever was available to patients at the pharmacy given intermittent supply shortages.
—USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
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Allie Danziger, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
This is also a major factor in the inventory shortage problem the market is facing.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Decades of racist redlining, predatory mortgage lending, and the criminalization of poverty have combined with a housing shortage to create an epidemic of Black homelessness.
—Carly Stern, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
Doctors had been prescribing these drugs based on whichever was available to patients at the pharmacy given intermittent supply shortages.
—USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Shortage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shortage. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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