91. The tax is on top of a series of price increases for tequila, reflecting tight supplies at a time of growing worldwide demand. 92. The severity of the situation was underscored in November when tight supplies once again sent prices soaring and renewed the threat of power disruptions. 93. The U.S. moved additional warplanes into the region today, raising concern among investors that escalating military action could disrupt the shipment of already tight supplies of oil. 94. The wheat purchases, should the sales be from the U.S., would come at a time of tight U.S. supplies, contributing to higher prices. 95. The tight supplies coupled with demand sent prices higher today. 96. There is concern that a major disruption in refining could cause very tight supplies, sending prices soaring. 97. They also discount the danger of rising imports, saying that free markets will relieve high prices or tight supplies by promoting increased output and efficiency. 98. This weekend, temperatures should be unseasonably warm, allowing farmers to begin the fall harvest in earnest, alleviating tight supplies. 99. Those figures could still have meant fairly tight supplies. |