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There is a growing shortage of drivers, rising costs, and relentless demand for faster deliveries.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 June 2025 -
To address the critical worker shortage, Massachusetts must prioritize benefits and training and improve pay for DSPs.—
Brian Cusack,
Boston Herald,
25 June 2025
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Grassley cited a Government Accountability Office report issued last year that detailed deficiencies in the program’s management dating back to 2009.—
Ryan J. Foley,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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Studies show that patients not meeting the diagnostic criteria for testosterone deficiency are still being prescribed testosterone therapy, often based on vague symptoms.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
24 June 2025
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With Haliburton significantly limited by a right hamstring injury suffered in the first half, his teammates elevated to make up for his deficit.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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The bank said its research showed that a gold deficit should peak in the third quarter of this year and the market should fundamentally weaken after that, driven by lower investment demand.—
Tim Treadgold,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Though the scarcity of furry figurines is a central part of the Labubu ecoystem, reseller communities online and in local collector shops keep buyers hooked.—
Annette Choi,
CNN Money,
21 June 2025
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The Thunder are Oklahoma’s only big-league option — the scarcity has taken a region divided by college allegiances and coalesced that fandom behind one franchise.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
19 June 2025
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The researchers also compiled data on four key negative social conditions – corruption, inequality, poverty and violence – of 183 countries and all 50 US states, going back 20 years to see if there was a connection.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
20 June 2025
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Inequality is poverty’s foremost enemy, not statistics and Census figures.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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The presence of an autoimmune disease was used as a proxy for chronic inflammation in the absence of direct measurements of participants’ inflammatory markers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 June 2025
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The law also limits the deployment of armed forces beyond 90 days in the absence of a formal declaration of war. − Savannah Kuchar Why did the US strike Iran's nuclear sites?—
Susan Miller,
USA Today,
24 June 2025
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That such rhetoric passed without objection is not merely a failure of decorum.—
Isabella Brannon,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2025
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Sometimes, this involves social engineering techniques that encourage people to compromise their own systems, but the root cause is often simple human error or a failure to implement best practices within increasingly complex and fragmented database estates.—
Jakub Lamik,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Despite the frequent paucity of BLM cartographic resources, apparently Jackson never got lost or worried about dropping the thread of a trail.—
Melina Sempill Watts,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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But the Fort Pierce station doesn’t address a paucity of local news coverage in Palm Beach County, Rampell suggested. .—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
9 June 2025
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“Scantness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scantness. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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