101.   The plan calls on the government to set numerical targets by the end of this year to improve capacity utilization at electric power companies, Kyodo said.

102.   A rising rate of capacity utilization could indicate future shortages industrial which could push prices higher, accelerating inflation.

103.   Analysts are particularly concerned at the high level of industrial capacity utilization, judging that it leaves little margin for any further increase in production.

104.   Business investment, on the other hand, should be underpinned by recovering corporate profitability, better demand prospects and a renewed rise in capacity utilization.

105.   But it should be relayed by a pickup in corporate investment fuelled by growing profits and expectations of a rise in capacity utilization.

106.   But the IMF said the economy remained close to full capacity utilization, with the slowdown actually helping to keep inflation in check.

107.   But industrial capacity utilization weakened last month, as did orders and the pace of activity in the agricultural and auto industries.

108.   Some figures released this week -- a jump in retail sales, higher industrial production and industrial capacity utilization -- have shown that the economy is growing steadily.

109.   The bond market responded to lower industrial production and capacity utilization for March that was announced on Friday.

110.   The higher the rate of capacity utilization the greater the liklihood of shortages that could push prices upward.