And even if they are due directly to crop shortages and abnormal exports they still are a reflex of the railroad's intimate touch with every man, woman, and child all the way across the land.
If we were to set a nine years' supply of rice as our goal there would be no shortages because of frost damage, and no need to import rice; at the same time there would be no need for an acreage reduction policy.
It is absurd that this problem of rice excesses and shortages should be fussed over as if it controlled the fate of the farmers!
Unemployment is minimal and there are signs of labor shortages in several sectors.
Namibia normally imports about 50% of its cereal requirements; in drought years food shortagesare a major problem in rural areas.
Industrial capital stock is nearly beyond repair as a result of years of underinvestment and shortages of spare parts.
Georgia also suffers from energy shortages due to aging and badly maintained infrastructure, as well as poor management.
Panic buying has created food shortages and inflation and caused riots in local markets.
As in the area administered by Turkish Cypriots, watershortages are a perennial problem; a few desalination plants are now on line.
It is important that businessmen know now that materials in short supply are going to be controlled and distributed fairly as long as these war-born shortages continue.
These extraordinary demands and shortagesmay lead to a speculative boom, especially in the price of securities, real estate, and inventories.
Along with extraordinary demand there are still at this time many critical shortages resulting from the war.
Additional power--public and private--is needed to raise the ceilings now imposed by power shortages on industrial and agricultural development.
Rank code: 2207 Country Comparison :: Central bank discount rate This entry provides the annualized interest rate a country's central bank charges commercial, depository banks for loans to meet temporary shortagesof funds.
It has undertaken limited reforms in recent years to stem excess liquidity, increase enterprise efficiency, and alleviate serious shortages of food, consumer goods, and services, but is unlikely to implement extensive changes.
Foreign mining companies have reduced expatriate staff, while panic buying has created food shortages and inflation in local markets.
As in the Turkish sector, water shortages are a perennial problem; a few desalination plants are now online.
Energy shortagescontributed to sharp production declines after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Unemployment is falling and there are signs of laborshortages in several sectors.
Import restrictions and inefficient resource allocations have led to periodic shortages of basic goods and foodstuffs.
The failure of spring rains caused major food shortages in the south in 2001.
Severe energy shortages are forcing small firms out of business, increasing unemployment, scaring off foreign investors, and spurring inflation.
Growth in manufacturing output has slowed, and electricity shortages continue in many regions.
Shortages of water and rapid population growth will constrain government efforts to increase self-sufficiency in agricultural products.
Growth in manufacturing output slowed, and electricity shortages continue in many regions.
In this statist society, import restrictions and inefficient resource allocations have led to periodic shortages of basic goods and foodstuffs.
The nation faces its seventh year of food shortages because of weather-related problems, including major drought in 2000, and chronic shortages of fertilizer and fuel.
The dual island nation's agricultural production is mainly directed to the domestic market; the sector is constrained by the limited water supply and labor shortages that reflect the pull of higher wages in tourism and construction.
The chronic energy shortages Armenia suffered in recent years have been largely offset by the energy supplied by one of its nuclear power plants at Metsamor.
Despite a badly degraded transportation network - brought on by ethnic conflict, criminal activities, and fuel shortages - the country continues to move toward a market economy and greater integration with Western institutions.
The fall in output and in imports is reflected in the deterioration of food supplies, shortages of electricity, inability to get spare parts, and the replacement of motor-driven vehicles by bicycles and draft animals.
In addition, bread is strictly rationed and there are shortages of other goods.
This has left Armenia with chronic energy shortages because of a lack of capacity and frequent disruptions of natural gas deliveries through unstable Georgia, as well as difficulties in obtaining other types of fuel.
Moreover, a serious drawdown in inventories and critical shortages in the energy sector have led to increasing interruptions in industrial production.
The crop shortages worked a double penalty on the planter--he had little tobacco because of the weather, but he was forced to pay his taxes in valuable tobacco he did not have.
At his death in May 1766 an audit revealed massive shortages in his treasurer's account books resulting from heavy loans to many Tidewater gentry and political associates.
In the 1750's a series of droughts and other natural disasters brought crop shortages in some areas, driving tobacco prices well beyond normal levels.
But we have also faced world commodity shortages, natural disasters, agricultural shortages and major challenges to world peace and security.
Although air strikes caused little measurable damage, save at Rabaul, they demoralized the defenders, who already suffered shortages of supplies and medicine because of air and submarine attacks on seagoing convoys and coastal shipping.
The Japanese may have suffered even more because of shortages of medicine and difficulty in distributing what was available, but this was scant consolation to Marines beset by discomfort and disease.
The nation has suffered its tenth year of food shortages because of a lack of arable land; collective farming; weather-related problems, including major drought in 2000; and chronic shortages of fertilizer and fuel.
It has undertaken limited reforms in recent years to increase enterprise efficiency and alleviate serious shortages of food, consumer goods, and services but is unlikely to implement extensive changes.
Water shortages and rapid population growth constrain the government's efforts to increase self-sufficiency in agricultural products.
Energy shortagesfueled by high oil prices, however, are a serious bottleneck to growth.
As a result of these inefficiencies, significant informal market activity flourishes and shortages are common.
Tajikistan ranks third in the world in terms of water resources per head, but suffers winter power shortages due to poor management of water levels in rivers and reservoirs.
Controlled prices for refined products result in shortages within Iraq, which drive consumers to the thriving black market.
Until Iraqis pay market prices for oil products, drastic fuel shortages will remain.
Energy shortages have contributed to sharp production declines since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Nonetheless, in 1992 overall industrial and livestock output declined because of acute fuel shortages and a widespread lack of spare parts.
Indeed, total civil production by the defense sector fell in 1992 because of shortages of inputs and lower consumer demand caused by higher prices.
In recent years the agricultural sector has had to contend with flooding, mismanagement, shortages of inputs, and disarray caused by the dismantling of cooperatives.
Water shortages loom, but have not yet seriously materialized.
Inland arid regions and perhaps other places as well are undoubtedly going to find one answer to water shortages in the recirculation of their treated waste waters through municipal systems.
If the shortages can't be filled, we might have to take from one ship or facility to fix others.
The central government on Earth, weakened by shortagesand distracted by agitators at home and in space, was neither vigilant nor prepared.
Citing manpower shortages and the small volume of work he envisaged, Paul planned instead to divide such duties between his Welfare Branch and Military Personnel Services Group.
Theoretically, every marine was trained as an infantryman, and when shortages occurred in combat units commanders began assigning black replacements where needed.
Worried about the shortages of volunteers for the Steward's Branch, a group of officials had met in August 1951 to discuss ways of improving branch morale.
Assuming the shortages discovered in the seventy-eight units would be mirrored in the 315 black units overseas as well as other temporary units at home, the group also wanted General Paul to order a comprehensive survey of all black units.
But the basic reason for the shortage was that the magnitude of the war had finally turned the manpower surpluses of the 1930's into manpower shortages, and the shortages were appearing in black as well as white levies for the armed forces.
A second, related to the first, revolved around the personnel shortages in black tactical units that necessitated an immediate reorganization of those units, a reorganization both controversial and managerially inefficient.
I recommend the continuance of the authority for Federal control over rents in those communities in which serious housing shortages exist.
Two fundamental problems confront us: first, high and ever-rising costs of health services; second, serious gaps and shortages in these services.
There may be a combination of actual shortages and a currency inflation--as frequently happens during war.
Nearly all our war shortages were caused by speculation or buying ahead of need.
There'll never be any food shortages in this house, if we have to sell all of the furniture.
Some of the shortages were eased, if not solved, by local manufacture.
Even if stocks of drugs in the Colonies had been far greater than they were, there is little reason to believe that shortages would not have developed.
The delay in initiating importation can hardly be charged as the only or even the main reason for medical supply shortages in 1776.
Even local manufacture of the purging salts and nitre aided in eliminating shortages of these essential items, and at the same time initiated the first large-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing in America.
Add to this the fact that any retreating army is subject to loss of supplies and the reasons for the shortages become very obvious.
Equipment shortages included surgical instruments and mortar and pestles for pulverizing the crude drugs.
Hence the most immediate relief from medical supply shortages was provided by the American privateers.
Even as the war was raging, shortages of food and other supplies led to the dispensation of political favours (in the form of import licences, for instance) to the chosen few.
For one thing, most of them have some kind of private property and the abundance of all types of products together with the elimination of queues and shortages served to provide a foretaste of the "capitalist heaven".
The situation is aggravated by chronic shortages of spare parts for both domestic and imported equipment.
LABOR Growth and productivity of the economy have been adversely affected by shortages of skilled labor and of adequately trained and experienced technical and executive personnel.
There were, in the 1960s, severe shortages of food, housing, and consumer goods.
Consumption According to official figures, consumption has grown steadily since the early 1960s, in spite of continued shortages of some goods.
Limited production capacity, however, and shortages of certain raw materials will seriously restrict the extent of possible improvements.
The consequent failure of the anticipated output from new plants to materialize created shortages in various areas, thereby affecting production and market supplies adversely and necessitating revisions of the economic plans.
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