Some two-thirds of Paraguay's 4m people were said to be short of food.
All had gathered dust while schools were supposed to be short of supplies.
But the top brass in Brussels seem to be short of an alternative, which is creating fear among investors.
But Mr Turnbull says he knows how it is to be short of money and to live in rented flats.
Combined sales of the roadsters, the Pontiac Solstice and the Saturn Sky, are expected to be short of 40, 000 vehicles a year.
Also, he added, many traders do not want to be short of gold if there were to be a full-blown currency crisis.
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And for Italian and Spanish banks, in today's febrile climate there is a strong temptation to put any spare cash on deposit with central banks, even for a guaranteed loss on that money, because they don't want to double up on lending to households and businesses struggling to repay what they owe, and they don't want to be short of cash if capital flight intensifies.
The World Food Programme gave warning that millions of people in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe were about to be seriously short of food.
If they turn out to be a bit short of capital, they should be able to find what they need either through selling assets or through raising money from investors.
"The result, however, turned out to be falling short of actively saving their precious lives, " he said.
One partner might want the goal to be nothing short of market domination.
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In sum, Iran, Russia and Venezuela are all likely to be left short of cash and facing a diminution in their international clout.
While sales were almost in line with Street estimates, profits are going to be well short of the Street consensus at 67 cents.
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"When patrons are ordering from Mr Puck's menus, they expect the food and presentation to be nothing short of outstanding, " said Larry Korman, AKA's president.
The main reasons for early sellouts seem to be short cycles of venture capital, and the significant change in lifestyle for first time founders after a sale.
China wants to enhance its domestic production as a pricing hedge, all while the U.S. considers domestic energy development to be nothing short of a second industrial revolution.
Over the time period he looked at, the best approach was to be short ahead of FDA decisions, not long even though the drugs got approved most of the time.
Match referee Chris Broad later fined Australia's players 15% of their match fees for a slow over-rate, after they were found to be three overs short of their target when time allowances were taken into consideration.
However, because this type of default is expected to be short-lived, and the expected loss to holders of Treasury bonds would be minimal or non-existent, the rating would most likely be downgraded to somewhere in the Aa range.
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The Aussies were adjudged by match referee Roshan Mahanama to be two overs short of their target when time allowances were taken into consideration.
If they have incredible endurance and try to outlast their opponents, set a negotiating time period that is forced to be very short because of external circumstances or plane flights.
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"This would be expensive and likely to be only a short season of use, " he admitted.
Debt mutualisation can be devised to stop short of a permanent transfer union.
In a business in which memories tend to be short, that kind of experience and wisdom is hard to find.
With seven minutes left David Blair sniffed a half-gap and shot through only to be dragged down just short of the Blues' line.
But the investment business seems to find any measure better than none even if it turns out to be a few inches short of a yardstick.
But Mr Obama, who insists that he will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, appears to be trying every means short of war (including, some say, sabotage, cyberwar and the assassination of scientists) to stop it.
Instead, by aiming for big markets it has delivered something more costly and complex than it needed to be, yet which stills fall short of being good enough to drive mass adoption.
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