shortage
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The chip shortage is damaging shares of companies that build devices and boosting the ones supplying the parts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Laurence Findlay, president of the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland, said there was a "persistent and worsening shortage" of specialist teachers.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
The same shortage is a windfall for the companies on the other side of the wall, and the contrast is the most useful map an investor has.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
And at a press conference on the shortage of non-fossil fuels needed to decarbonise air travel, EU regulations on the minimum amounts of such fuels required in aircraft tanks came under fire.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Although there was no reliable way of dating periods, there was no shortage of people willing to try.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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