11.   With its high population growth, the continent may at best achieve a small rise in per capita output this year, it said.

12.   Brazil was not alone in increasing output this year.

13.   But a number of its rivals in Russia have heavily invested in major increases in output this year and fiercely oppose a decrease in production.

14.   Electronics stocks saw mild buying support on forecasts of a recovery in output this year.

15.   The DIW said on Wednesday that this year output would continue to decline.

16.   The finance ministry said that France should still be able to achieve its target of reducing public deficits to four percent of output this year.