All but about a half dozen or so of the public defenders in New Orleans were let go due to lack of funds.

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The school board voided raises last year due to lack of funds, which according to the Times provided one of the sparks for the strike.

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Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, said the trust currently had to turn down two out of every three research projects due to lack of funds.

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James Cleary's actions came to light in 2011, after he had left the university, when his former department found a bill could not be paid due to lack of funds.

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The internal combustion technology that MCE-5 has been working on was something Saab also dabbled in almost a decade ago, but the project was shelved by GM due to lack of funds.

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Decades later, East German authorities tore down large chunks of the building in the 1980s but were unable to start new construction due to a lack of funds.

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That magnificent project reached the third floor, when it stopped five years later due to a lack of funds.

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It also said it recognised a lack of substantive research in detecting drug changes, mainly due to the speed at which the drugs surface in the UK, but also because of a lack of funds.

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