The investment garnered little if any returns in industries which were already suffering from over-capacity.
Similarly, the optical components industry has suffered from over-capacity for years, depressing profitability and returns.
But higher passenger numbers are not translating into higher revenues-per-passenger, because of price wars and over-capacity.
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Chavez perceives the alliance to be strategic because of the Belarusian over-capacity of military production.
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The British clothing industry is suffering from falling prices, over-capacity and new sales channels, such as the Internet.
As tariff barriers come down, says Erik Sardain of Kleinwort Benson, over-capacity will remain a problem for many firms.
The second reason to expect consolidation is the industry's persistent and profit-crushing over-capacity.
Mr Barr said there had been a "significant" over-capacity in the UK meat industry and market conditions were extremely challenging.
The intervention must restore the company's viability, involve a sector characterised by over-capacity and be carried out with the company owner's participation.
This matters because the ministry thinks that it has to guarantee any firm it licenses, thus adding to over-capacity in the financial system.
Julia Dean, from the WEP, said they were "disappointed" as rail travel was growing in popularity and there was already over-capacity on some lines.
But some analysts worry that the ever-increasing competition and over-capacity will prompt local manufacturers to look overseas for sales, creating tough competition for Thailand.
In front of live television cameras in a special hosted by then-actor Ronald Reagan, Disney opened the park to an over-capacity crowd on July 17, 1955.
But this is a dreadful time to be trying to recover from a position of weakness in the European market, where massive over-capacity fosters fierce price wars.
Estimates of over-capacity in the Western European car industry vary.
Global car firms are suffering from over-capacity and will thus be reluctant to invest the millions needed to upgrade the plant: Zastava cars do not meet western safety and emission standards.
Even before this year's recession, Asia's over-capacity approached 35%.
There is less over-capacity in America partly because the government has allowed prices to fall and factories to close (though it is still to end some tariffs on, for example, sport-utility vehicles).
One is how to improve margins sufficiently to make a healthy real return in a world where over-capacity is running at 25-30%, and car makers are cutting prices either overtly or by offering extra features.
Delayed spring weather may be part of the cause for the Mets dipping attendance figures, except for the fact that the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox are playing home games in front of over-capacity crowds in cities that are not immune to the cold.
Mr Biden also said he had encountered widespread concerns over high-capacity ammunition magazines.
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Iomega's just-announced 250MB Zip drive is set to take over as the capacity leader -- beating its largest competitor by 50MB.
To the uninitiated, this deliberation might appear approximately as consequential as the rarified ecclesiastical debates of the Middle Ages over the angel-packing capacity of the heads of pins.
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Profit growth has slowed sharply over the past year because of excess capacity in the most over-invested sectors, such as cement and steel.
So it makes no sense for politicians to allocate great swathes to golf courses, especially given ecological concerns -- primarily over water use -- that accompany their operational capacity and the association with the wealthy elite.
But the state monopoly is keeping its grip over access to ultra-high capacity submarine cables.
In growing markets, companies can afford to risk over-investing, because excess capacity is eventually mopped up.
Mr Gates is surely right that the Europeans have become over-reliant on American military capacity, in Libya and elsewhere.
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