Computer problems and the shortage of qualified linguists have worsened the backlog in translating material, the report found.

The shortage could worsen starting July 2001 because of a salary provision in the teachers' contract that is expected to encourage retirements.

In the air, the French were short of fighter planes and the shortage was worsening due to their many losses in combat.

Hospital administrators and nurses expect the shortage to worsen.

Those shortages will only worsen, and prices continue to rise, if the United States attacks Iraq, they predicted.

The shortage of daytime help has worsened over recent years.

But if the price controls remain in place, farmers will withhold produce and the shortages will worsen.

For others, it is simply a practical matter, as the nationwide shortage of priests worsens.

A chronic shortage of poll workers, many of them retirees uncomfortable with new technology, has worsened matters.

For several years at least, hospitals warn, the shortage will worsen.