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- noun Plural form of
shortfall .
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Examples
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Even as state and local governments take difficult steps to balance their budgets and address long-term shortfalls in their pension systems, they should not neglect the education and training programs that are the key to the nation's competitiveness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S.
Bernanke to budget-cutting state and local governments: Don't shortchange education 2011
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Despite the fact of years of operational know how and a fresh engineering crew who could have spent the development period making up for known shortfalls from the orig excellent system.
Astronauts Once Again Demonstrate Why Humans Must be a Part of Space Exploration - NASA Watch 2009
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Correct me if I am wrong ... blaming Nixon for Ares shortfalls is a bit over the top.
Griffin Uses Hand Picked Media Opportunity to Warn of Layoffs - NASA Watch 2009
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But both reveal a nation completely unwilling to deal with current trillion-dollar deficits or long-term shortfalls many multiples of that number.
Pethokoukis: America’s Banana Republic Economy - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009
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The 1990s showed that budget controls like discretionary spending caps and Paygo can help, but we must honestly confront the enormous long-term shortfalls which are driven by demographics and healthcare costs that rise faster than the economy grows.
Arlene M. Roberts: I.O.U.S.A. or, the Inheritance of Debts and Deficits 2008
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Tallahassee - State economists reduced their estimate of the general revenue by $147.1 million to $20.7 billion for the current budget year, far less than the billions in shortfalls over the past two that forced special legislative sessions.
USATODAY.com 2006
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And so it begins, the town of Fishers is considering a property tax increase due to funding shortfalls from the state.
Archive 2005-08-01 Cass Dems 2005
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And so it begins, the town of Fishers is considering a property tax increase due to funding shortfalls from the state.
First Round of Property Tax increases begins Cass Dems 2005
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I do, however, think this administration needs to come forward and do everything they can to aid enlistment, and Kos and I do agree that blaming the media and/or Democratic lawmakers for recruiting shortfalls is offensive, unproductive, and indefensible.
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To emphatically state that the global war on terror will last for years, yet fail to even acknowledge, let alone take steps to address the Army's readiness, equipment, and personnel shortfalls, is short - sighted at best.
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