Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states have been slow to deliver promised financial aid to the Palestinian Authority, officials close to Mr. Abbas said, and the authority faces an increasingly dire shortfall.
Mr Christie, meanwhile, has twice vetoed attempts by New Jersey's legislature to reinstate a lapsed tax surcharge on those making more than $400,000.Many other governors have taken similar approaches in the face of dire budgetary shortfalls and a sluggish economy.
The BMA says it fully agrees this is what should happen, but what is needed to make it a reality is more money and staff, citing a dire shortage of doctors and a funding shortfall in the NHS of 30 billion pounds ($43 bn) that is predicted by 2020.
In 2011, as a consequence of the education reform movement's gaining power at a time of budgetary shortfalls, dire predictions of teacher layoffs, and public antipathy toward teacher unions, there is a renewed emphasis on teacher evaluations based on student performance.
Page A13 ALLEVIATING A DRUG SHORTAGE Dire shortages of two critical cancer drugs -- shortfalls that have threatened the lives and care of thousands of patients -- should be resolved within weeks, federal drug officials said.
Eleven towns in the state have pension shortfalls even more dire than Providence's.
The state's budget shortfalls are so dire that the Florida's chief financial officer, Alex Sink, last week called for an emergency session of the state's legislature to tackle the problem.
Members of Congress cannot simultaneously claim that the tax cuts for people at the top are affordable [or like the Ryan budget, add trillions more in tax cuts] while the Social Security shortfall constitutes a dire fiscal threat.
Venice's financial situation is dire: the town hall has a shortfall of tens of millions of euros in its operating budget, and its debts exceed €400m.
Prosecutors are also facing budget shortfalls, putting them in similar dire circumstances that will probably result in botched prosecutions.
