1.   Boeing blamed late aircraft deliveries, snarled assembly lines and shortages of parts and skilled labor for the loss.

2.   He needed to attract and retain skilled labor.

3.   Many industries are reporting a shortage of skilled labor.

4.   Scientific wages have already started to respond to what is effectively a new cheap source of very highly skilled labor.

5.   These reformers were joined by powerful forces in the business community who wanted the schools to help train a skilled labor pool.

6.   Already, American technology companies have set up operations in India, Ireland and the Philippines to take advantage of increasingly skilled foreign labor pools.

7.   And half the firms continue to report a shortage of skilled labor, the survey found.

8.   Asian women, with their higher college-completion rates, have benefited from the increased demand for skilled labor, but black and Hispanic women have fallen back.

9.   A full study by the association on the shortage of skilled labor will be released in January.

10.   A more intriguing possibility is that workers will respond to increasingly obvious financial incentives, and that the resulting growth in the supply of skilled labor will swamp demand.