11.   Boom times have encouraged manufacturers to build new plants and expand capacity, causing supply gluts for many products.

12.   -- The purchase of goods or real estate in the ordinary course of business, including the purchase of equipment that will replace or expand production capacity.

13.   A spokesman said the company is rapidly expanding its capacity to train surgeons.

14.   Additionally, the company is expanding capacity at its main Staropramen and Branik breweries in Prague, Childs said.

15.   Alcan said it needed to expand the capacity of the generating station before deciding on whether to increase its smelting capacity.

16.   Alcan, for its part, has for the past three years been consolidating its business to focus on aluminum production and is expanding capacity.

17.   Both Zarb and New York Stock Exchange Chariman Richard Grasso urged markets, brokerages, dealers and vendors to move immediately to expand their capacity.

18.   But companies are also gaining flexibility by investing heavily in advanced, highly productive equipment that expands capacity and thereby tends to relieve inflation pressure.

19.   But the airlines plan to shift the debate to the question of expanding the capacity of airports and the air traffic system.

20.   But the company also invested heavily, moving manufacturing to Texas, expanding production capacity, installing computer and phone systems and hiring more employees.