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What we expect that means is that Lake Powell and Lake Mead will balance, that helps with what type of shortage we might have next year, that helps as far as where we think the reservoirs might be in two to three years, so it’s very good news. – Brenda Burman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the image, for me, that most sums up where we are in the labor market is [the chart in this tweet] by Bloomberg’s chief economist [Michael McDonough], which shows that mentions of job cuts are now higher than mentions of labor shortages in earnings calls, that’s a big reversal after 2021 and 2022 were very much the years of the labor shortage and everyone was talking about how they were struggling to find workers. – Julia Pollak	Found on CNN 1 year ago
But this legislation does not address the fundamental production and supply shortage in California markets, the high energy prices this bill purports to address are a function of an under-supplied, isolated market for specialized gasoline blends. The state’s own regulators have found time and again that California’s high gas prices are caused by regulation, policy and geography. – Ross Allen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As inflation and mortgage rates likely soften later this year, buyers are likely to return to the market and be in search of an affordable home, and the ongoing housing supply shortage will only continue to put pressure on the market. – Danielle Hale	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I believe that other world leaders are equally interested in playing a peace-making diplomatic role. So when and if Putin wishes to come to the table to negotiate, he will have no shortage of diplomats hoping to help. – Indian Prime Minister Modis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are not required to disclose the reason for disrupted supply. Knowing the exact reason for a given shortage is always challenging, it’s really difficult to be able to anticipate and let alone come up with meaningful solutions if you don’t know what the problem is. – Yoram Unguru	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I hadn’t heard anything about a shortage, i didn’t really take it seriously at first until later that week – maybe three or four days later – when I started to hear news about the shortage, and it really started to sink in. – Clara Pitts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the early months of the shortage, it was absolute desperation. – Hannah Kroll	Found on CNN 1 year ago
So not only can’t we give the right drug because of the shortage, but we have to spend more money. – Benjamin Davies	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In northwest Syria, we are already suffering from a shortage of supplies, and we are now using the regular inventories in our warehouses, so we are in urgent need of additional support to compensate these supplies for regular operations — and also to be ready for aftershocks and more casualties who may come to our hospitals. – Abdurrahman Alomar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Departments around the country … are offering between $ 25,000 and $ 30,000 signing bonuses, you’ve got a national shortage of applicants which has forced police departments to do unprecedented things like offering signing bonuses and, in some cases, modifying the standards for hiring. – Chuck Wexler	Found on CNN 1 year ago
No American should ever be forced to choose between the COVID shot or losing their livelihood, joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is unscientific, un-American, and deeply damaging to healthcare workers as we already face a nationwide staff shortage. – Jeff Duncan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Rents are rising, driven by inflation and exacerbated by the housing supply shortage, we encourage the administration to look more deeply at how it can address the root causes of rental affordability — namely, affordable housing supply. – Kenny Parcell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have talked hundreds of times about the shortage of weapons. We cannot go only on motivation. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have talked hundreds of times about the shortage of weapons. We can not go only on motivation. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He has really wonderful primary nurses, they were in tears having to leave him because my baby suffered cardiac arrest two days before the strike happened, and so now I’m dealing with that plus the shortage of staff. Which is very scary. – Lora Ribas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s a huge shortage, people talk about abolishing the coroner system, but it’s really not feasible. I think we need to train coroners. That’s what will improve the system. – Kathryn Pinneri	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Drug shortages can occur for many reasons, including manufacturing and quality problems, delays and discontinuations, manufacturers provide FDA [with] most drug shortage information, and the agency works closely with them to prevent or reduce the impact of shortages. – The FDA	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Just last month, my family experienced this problem firsthand when amoxicillin was completely unavailable for my five-year-old daughter, this shortage is emblematic of the difficulties the country faced sourcing needed medical supplies during COVID19, which is why I introduced the American Made Medicine Act. – Brad Wenstrup	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I believe every single thing in the country is moving in the wrong direction under President Biden, so there is no shortage of things that we need to do and sign on to and work hard to fix or to change direction on. – Katie Britt	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Like each of you, I am deeply disappointed by the results of the recent election, despite what the armchair quarterbacks on TV will tell you, there is no one person responsible for our party’s performance across the country. I know there is no shortage of people who are eager to point fingers and assign blame here in Washington, but I won’t be one of them. – Scott Applewhite	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The oil sector has long structural tailwinds behind it, there is a supply shortage, so there is still a bull case. – Matt Cole	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've been in a period of extremely low layoffs and a labor shortage. Companies have been reticent to let go of anybody. – Andrew Challenger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The goal is to reduce our energy consumption by 15 %, this is a response to the looming gas shortage, which is a big challenge for municipalities — especially for a big city like Hanover. – Belit Onay	Found on CNN 1 year ago

What we expect that means is that Lake Powell and Lake Mead will balance, that helps with what type of shortage we might have next year, that helps as far as where we think the reservoirs might be in two to three years, so it’s very good news.

– Brenda Burman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the image, for me, that most sums up where we are in the labor market is [the chart in this tweet] by Bloomberg’s chief economist [Michael McDonough], which shows that mentions of job cuts are now higher than mentions of labor shortages in earnings calls, that’s a big reversal after 2021 and 2022 were very much the years of the labor shortage and everyone was talking about how they were struggling to find workers.

– Julia Pollak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But this legislation does not address the fundamental production and supply shortage in California markets, the high energy prices this bill purports to address are a function of an under-supplied, isolated market for specialized gasoline blends. The state’s own regulators have found time and again that California’s high gas prices are caused by regulation, policy and geography.

– Ross Allen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As inflation and mortgage rates likely soften later this year, buyers are likely to return to the market and be in search of an affordable home, and the ongoing housing supply shortage will only continue to put pressure on the market.

– Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe that other world leaders are equally interested in playing a peace-making diplomatic role. So when and if Putin wishes to come to the table to negotiate, he will have no shortage of diplomats hoping to help.

– Indian Prime Minister Modis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are not required to disclose the reason for disrupted supply. Knowing the exact reason for a given shortage is always challenging, it’s really difficult to be able to anticipate and let alone come up with meaningful solutions if you don’t know what the problem is.

– Yoram Unguru

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hadn’t heard anything about a shortage, i didn’t really take it seriously at first until later that week – maybe three or four days later – when I started to hear news about the shortage, and it really started to sink in.

– Clara Pitts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the early months of the shortage, it was absolute desperation.

– Hannah Kroll

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So not only can’t we give the right drug because of the shortage, but we have to spend more money.

– Benjamin Davies

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In northwest Syria, we are already suffering from a shortage of supplies, and we are now using the regular inventories in our warehouses, so we are in urgent need of additional support to compensate these supplies for regular operations — and also to be ready for aftershocks and more casualties who may come to our hospitals.

– Abdurrahman Alomar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Departments around the country … are offering between $ 25,000 and $ 30,000 signing bonuses, you’ve got a national shortage of applicants which has forced police departments to do unprecedented things like offering signing bonuses and, in some cases, modifying the standards for hiring.

– Chuck Wexler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No American should ever be forced to choose between the COVID shot or losing their livelihood, joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is unscientific, un-American, and deeply damaging to healthcare workers as we already face a nationwide staff shortage.

– Jeff Duncan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Rents are rising, driven by inflation and exacerbated by the housing supply shortage, we encourage the administration to look more deeply at how it can address the root causes of rental affordability — namely, affordable housing supply.

– Kenny Parcell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have talked hundreds of times about the shortage of weapons. We cannot go only on motivation.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have talked hundreds of times about the shortage of weapons. We can not go only on motivation.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He has really wonderful primary nurses, they were in tears having to leave him because my baby suffered cardiac arrest two days before the strike happened, and so now I’m dealing with that plus the shortage of staff. Which is very scary.

– Lora Ribas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a huge shortage, people talk about abolishing the coroner system, but it’s really not feasible. I think we need to train coroners. That’s what will improve the system.

– Kathryn Pinneri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Drug shortages can occur for many reasons, including manufacturing and quality problems, delays and discontinuations, manufacturers provide FDA [with] most drug shortage information, and the agency works closely with them to prevent or reduce the impact of shortages.

– The FDA

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Just last month, my family experienced this problem firsthand when amoxicillin was completely unavailable for my five-year-old daughter, this shortage is emblematic of the difficulties the country faced sourcing needed medical supplies during COVID19, which is why I introduced the American Made Medicine Act.

– Brad Wenstrup

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I believe every single thing in the country is moving in the wrong direction under President Biden, so there is no shortage of things that we need to do and sign on to and work hard to fix or to change direction on.

– Katie Britt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Like each of you, I am deeply disappointed by the results of the recent election, despite what the armchair quarterbacks on TV will tell you, there is no one person responsible for our party’s performance across the country. I know there is no shortage of people who are eager to point fingers and assign blame here in Washington, but I won’t be one of them.

– Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The oil sector has long structural tailwinds behind it, there is a supply shortage, so there is still a bull case.

– Matt Cole

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've been in a period of extremely low layoffs and a labor shortage. Companies have been reticent to let go of anybody.

– Andrew Challenger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The goal is to reduce our energy consumption by 15 %, this is a response to the looming gas shortage, which is a big challenge for municipalities — especially for a big city like Hanover.

– Belit Onay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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