These include hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bad debts, chronic dollar shortages, higher costs for overseas money, and a dim outlook.

The 1973 OPEC crisis had created a vast dollar shortage in these countries, however, they still needed to finance their oil imports.

For most of the 1940s the core difficulty from the British point of view was the dollar shortage, which was the key to the reserve position.

In the late 1940's and early 1950's, experts warned that a "dollar shortage" would mean insufficient capital for a postwar recovery.

Postwar world capitalism suffered from a huge dollar shortage.

Formerly a prominent exporter, tariff barriers and dollar shortages reduced its overseas markets.

Not to mention our dollar shortage.

At this period, American industry was ready to consider overseas investment, encouraged as it was by an international dollar shortage.

Don't think they'd been married a month before Orville beat the bejesus out of her over something trivial, like a dollar shortage in the grocery money.

I might add that there's quite a difference between seventy-five hundred dollars in obligations and a ninety-five hundred dollar shortage.