11.   Congress also has to think about preserving productive capacity, a challenge when defense budgets are continually shrinking.

12.   Meanwhile, companies are continuing to invest record amounts in technologies and systems to increase their productive capacity.

13.   No less important, a rapid transition would tie up capital that could otherwise be used to increase productive capacity.

14.   Some doubters say the economy still has too much productive capacity making far more goods and services than buyers can soak up.

15.   Supply could not rise to match demand after all, the new view declared, because the nation lacked the necessary productive capacity.

16.   The government has sought to ease concern over the swelling deficit, saying that rising imports represent investment in productive capacity that will eventually benefit the economy.

17.   The inevitable reco nstruction of a war-devastated economy became an unacknowledged policy of limitless expansion of productive capacity irrespective of profitability.

18.   The United States may be near the limits of its productive capacity, but there is plenty of slack left in Europe and Japan.

19.   They, in turn, lend those dollars to companies that want to expand productive capacity.

20.   To slash payroll and reduce productive capacity in order to please the brokers and sweeten an already healthy bottom line, and then to reward executives for their savagery...