For the Europeans, the critical shortfalls include airlift, stocks of precision-guided munitions and the capability of air-to-air refueling.
Other legal shortfalls include a failure to designate homophobic attacks with any special criminal designation, which racially motivated attacks, for example, do receive.
The shortfalls included "unwarranted delays to diagnosis and treatment" – which the report said, could have endangered patients – as well as unsafe information and records systems.
Municipal officials blame a variety of factors for the revenue shortfalls, including declining home sales, a decrease in state revenues for cities and towns and the national recession.
These included the ineffective security provided by the Libyan government; staffing shortfalls, including high turnover among American diplomatic security personnel; faulty fire-safety and security equipment, including surveillance cameras; and poor performance by specific officials.
These included the ineffective security provided by the host nation; staffing shortfalls, including high turnover among American diplomatic security personnel; faulty fire-safety and security equipment, including surveillance cameras; and poor performance by specific officials.
The review team found a city troubled for years with cash shortfalls — including one expected to reach $100 million by June — as well as repeated general fund deficits, dealt with mostly by issuing long-term debt.
The IOM recommended strategies to address each of the system's shortfalls, including the creation of a single agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate and oversee emergency and trauma services.
Last week, Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida wrote legislative leaders in his state to warn them about anticipated revenue shortfalls, including the expected loss of $210 million from the estate tax in the 2002-03 fiscal year.
The stimulus will also include up to $100 billion for state and local governments to meet their severe budget shortfalls, including grants, Medicaid and unemployment insurance funds, preventing cutbacks in public services, and investment and jobs in several recession-hit states.
In a "Letter to Working Mothers: Stop Feeling So Guilty," Forbes contributor Margie Warrell offers ways for working moms to "embrace shortfalls" including lowering "your bar to good enough".
