91.   Profits may be knocked especially hard as manufacturers try to get rid of excess inventories and lower production, he said.

92.   Personal computer makers slowed or canceled orders in the first several months of this year as they tried to get rid of excess inventory and prepare for new models.

93.   Raaf believes that K-Swiss will break even this year, hampered by discounting of excess inventory that will cut into earnings.

94.   Recessions usually take care of imbalances, such as excess inventory.

95.   Retail sales remained weak throughout the Christmas shopping season, even as stores slashed prices to lure reluctant shoppers and get rid of excess inventories.

96.   Read-Rite and many disk drive makers have rebounded after taking a beating two weeks ago on fears that excess inventory and declining prices could hurt earnings.

97.   Sanders attributed the lower sales to computer makers who slowed or canceled orders as they tried to get rid of excess inventory.

98.   RetailExchange.com, an independent offshoot of Gordon Brothers Group LLC of Boston, has launched a Web site where manufacturers can sell excess inventory to retailers.

99.   Rivals Quantum Corp. and Western Digital Corp. also have warned of disappointing earnings from excess inventory eroding profit margins.

100.   Second, analysts note that GM entered the strike with a large bubble of excess inventory and figure the company might have had to cut back production anyway.