1.   A chronic fuel shortage has hampered industry and transport for nearly a year.

2.   A Daily News story Sunday outlined how the shortage of officers has hampered the police in fighting crime.

3.   Most of these were being allowed to burn themselves out as firefighters, hampered by shortages of water, concentrated on keeping the flames from spreading.

4.   The production effort also has been hampered by shortages in raw materials and parts and a lack of trained employees.

5.   The stem cell shortage hampers short-term research progress, said scientists, especially for university-based scientists who cannot easily afford to buy cells privately.

6.   While supply shortages have hampered their studies, they joked, they have picked up some extraordinary skills.

7.   People who live in remote areas get even less because fuel shortages hamper distribution, although the government found enough fuel to allow winter military exercises, he said.

8.   A Fire and Rescue Department spokesman said firemen were hampered by shortage of water.

9.   Anton said he was afraid the shortage would soon hamper the delivery of goods, if exporters did not ensure the supply of containers soon.

10.   Budget shortages are hampering efforts by the Philippine government to control the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, officials said Monday.