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• n  the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

• Some 7% of people said they would intentionally default when a $100,000 shortfall represented less than 10% of their house's value.
• But behind this call for a voluntary contribution is an unprecedented worldwide effort to make up a shortfall in official government aid to poor countries a shortfall .
• That's by far the biggest shortfall ever, in dollar terms.

• deficit
• shortage

News & Articles

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• SL schools face shortfall
  Education SL schools face shortfall Spring Lake Public Schools will be laying off eight paraprofessionals as its officials try to get a handle on another year in red ink. Krystle Wagner Spring Lake Jun 18, 2013 googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("dfp-ad-ght300x250"); }); The Spring Lake school board approved the layoffs for the 2013-14 school year on Monday night. The district ...
  June 18, 2013 - Grand Haven Tribune
• VWSD looking to solve budget shortfall
  VWSD looking to solve budget shortfall Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 1:48 am, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 (AP) — With two weeks left before the state-mandated deadline for the Vicksburg Warren School District to adopt a budget, three of five board members have said they will ...
  June 18, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
• CU-Boulder athletics facing $7.5 million budget shortfall
  The University of Colorado athletic department is facing a $7.5 million budget shortfall as it searches for a new director to replace Mike Bohn, who was forced to resign last month.
  June 18, 2013 - Colorado Daily

Quotes

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• Carl-Henric Svanberg in The Local
  The unexpected development in the quarter is mainly due to a shortfall in sales in mobile network upgrades and expansions which resulted in an unfavourable business mix that also negatively affected group margins,Ericsson's chief executive...
• Nobuo Tanaka in Reuters
  Oil demand by 2050 would be 27 percent below the level of 2005. Yet massive investments in remaining reserves will be needed to make up for the shortfall as low-reserve provinces are exhausted,Tanaka said.
• Alberto Gonzales in International Herald Tribune
  Our primary shortfall was a decline in financial services earnings. We knew the first quarter was going to be challenging, but the extraordinary disruption in the capital markets in March affected our ability to complete asset sales and resulted in... Jeffrey Immelt http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._Immelt&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG-ni0bhyez0YfaHQLL7KdKwl7y5g MSN Money http://www.google.com/url?q=http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/080411markets.aspx&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEOVKn3fIOG_iI0xRvcx1aHVj4Obw Apr 11, 2008 89546 119220 shorthand I recognize that the use of the term 'Terrorist Surveillance Program' and my shorthand reference to the 'program' publicly 'described by the president' may have created confusion," Gonzales wrote.