21.   Analysts warn that this area, too, could suffer margin pressure as excess capacity combines with slowing corporate profits.

22.   And given the excess capacity in the region, mergers are another option.

23.   And the overhang of excess capacity is likely to keep business investment depressed for years.

24.   And they are more likely to succeed when inspired by a clear goal, such as the need to reduce excess capacity in an industry.

25.   As the first signs of recovery, airlines are returning to profitability and absorbing excess capacity, she said.

26.   As the industry sees it, the millions of miles of idle fiber they own should be seen more as a strategic inventory, rather than as excess capacity.

27.   Banks face the prospect of lower earnings next year in a business with excess capacity and cutthroat competition.

28.   Banks, telephone companies and other big, far-flung organizations with complicated operations have a tendency to accumulate excess capacity.

29.   Besides reducing excess capacity, closing plants and cutting jobs saved millions of dollars.

30.   Boeing faces an additional risk of excess capacity because improved productivity and advancing technology will allow the same number of workers to churn out a greater number of aircraft.