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Chicken sales are helping offset Tyson’s beef losses as the American cattle shortage takes a bite out of Tyson’s TSN -0.59%decrease; red down pointing triangle profits.

Among the latter were thousands of air traffic controllers, but absenteeism increased among a workforce that was already suffering from staff shortages before the shutdown.

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For now, the steep price rises have not resulted in product shortages as they did a few years ago, when people queued for hours to just to buy a small bag of coffee or sugar.

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And yet what the labor shortage created, labor abundance can take away.

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The takeaway: The projections of AI companies and their partners don’t reflect shortages of equipment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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