It is part of a city renowned for decrepit roads and public utilities, high taxes, heavy public debt and a perpetual shortage of affordable housing.

If the city invested now in swimming teams, we would soon have a much larger pool of potential lifeguards, addressing this perpetual shortage.

By limiting admission to sons of members, the union insured perpetuation of the time-honored technique - and a perpetual shortage of the bread.

The film takes place in an impoverished village in rural China, where there is a perpetual shortage of school supplies (and teachers), and where children are sent away to the city to work off their parents' debts.

The Soviet Government has quietly begun a major push to buy Western consumer goods, from razor blades and soap powder to women's boots and pantyhose, to pacify consumers anguished by perpetual shortages.

There are perpetual shortages of consumer goods.

The perpetual shortage of water was maintained by the Mafia and their friends in city hall.

Page A1 Moscow is buying Western goods, from razor blades and soap powder to women's boots, to pacify consumers anguished by perpetual shortages.

Often, during the communist period in Poland the grain beverages served as substitute of coffee during perpetual shortages.

Death rate, sickness rate, the earnings of the staff, the degree of their political consciousness and of their participation in the elections, the perpetual shortage of fuel, food, medicines, everything had to be checked and reported.