Yet the shortage of available land has driven up prices and created higher density when development occurs.

Absent the artificial shortage created by rent regulation, we would either have a bigger place or pay much less for the one we've got.

The shortages could also create riots and instability, European officials said.

He was aware that the shortages had created a thriving black market, but this was almost like pioneer days.

The shortage itself creates a sort of vacuum.

The resulting shortage of cocoa for export has created a balance-of-payments problem.

Such shortages are rapidly creating what many officials consider a crisis.

The shortages have created sharp tensions between families fortunate enough to have a small harvest and those with nothing.

But the orange shortage has created headaches for manufacturers.

The 1979 marginal shortage has created a large part of the economic chaos that we're still recovering from.