Moray Council's warning that children may be sent home because of teacher shortages touches on several important issues.
Longer stoppages would be even more expensive, as more and more parts of the economy were touched by a shortage of materials.
Dating back to the czars, public discontent over shortages — of flour or sausage, table salt or vodka — has often touched off political instability in Russia.
With Zambia struggling with the same food shortages afflicting much of southern Africa, closing the mines would have compounded a humanitarian crisis and perhaps touched off a political one as well.
"Global warming will itself almost certainly directly cause mass killing, but it will likely indirectly cause it" as major states like China and the United States seek to feed their citizens, possibly touching off shortages elsewhere, in places that would then be at risk.
'High demand for touchscreens for notebook and PC size displays has created a shortage of ITO touch sensors since the end of last year to drive more interest in these technologies, and the more flexible and potentially cheaper replacement technologies are getting more mature, notes Jennifer Colegrove, president and analyst, who will speak at the FlexTech workshop on transparent conductors.
So far, the car industry seems to have failed to crack the code for the perfect user-interface and user-experience yet – even though there is no shortage of ideas, from touch-screen controls and 3D visualisations, to voice commands, head-up displays and augmented reality.
There is no shortage of international laws that touch on many aspects of our lives that are universally respected and applied.
Not that there's any shortage of ways you can interact with the Apple Watch (touch, force touch, digital crown wheel, physical buttons, NFC, voice, heart rate…).
Meanwhile, dermatologists in the United States have begun to use "teledermatology" as a means of staying in touch with patients, despite a critical shortage of practitioners.
