The real shortages everywhere are not of food but of medicines, American officials say.

"You won't see any real shortage for a while, because inventories are high."

"We think that probably by February, they should have real shortages of grain."

There is a real and dramatic shortage of priests, a situation critical enough to make us worry about the future.

There's no real shortage, yet, but it will come.

This will come as no surprise to economists, who say that real shortages are rare in a market economy.

Real-estate agents say they have seen a real shortage of listings in recent months.

Now even though there's no real shortage yet, cotton's gone to twenty cents a pound.

Africa has no real shortage of capable people - or even of money.

Never again can we allow private interests to create artificial or even real shortages and to be in control.