Itinerant laborers from Florida to New England fear that growers plan to replace them with imported foreign pickers, an option possible under the immigration law if there is an imminent shortage of farm workers to harvest perishable crops.

For one thing, the White House sees an imminent shortage coming.

At the same time, American colleges are facing an imminent shortage of young scholars.

For the moment, however, there is no imminent shortage of power in the Midwest, analysts said.

LEAD: An article yesterday about an imminent shortage of airline pilots misstated the number of flight hours required for an air transport pilot's license.

But the frenzied trading in New York did not portend an imminent shortage of oil.

This was because of a view at the time of their conception that there was an imminent shortage of uranium fuel for existing reactors.

Heat to boiling point with an imminent shortage of gasoline.

Facing an imminent shortage of telephone numbers within the 212 area code, state utility regulators today approved a plan to phase in another area code in Manhattan starting in April 1998.

Michael Huggins, the agency's regional information director for southern Africa, said in an interview that the agency needed an increase in cash donations to be able to respond quickly to the imminent shortage in Zimbabwe.