21.   In disclosing its more modest plans, the company acknowledged the difficulties of trying to squeeze out more growth in the mature U.S. market merely by adding stores.

22.   In mature markets, brewers usually invest in production capacity only after years of patient brand-building.

23.   James Barrett, an analyst with First Manhattan, attributed the relatively flat income to slow sales of wine and spirits in Europe, which primarily represents mature markets.

24.   Japan is perceived as an already mature market in which it is expensive to operate, with strong domestic competitors and numerous regulations and other barriers.

25.   Less mature markets in Europe and Asia will absorb some of the overcapacity, but not for long.

26.   Like cereal and laundry powder, the PC finds itself in a mature market.

27.   Many financial planners recommend funds that invest only part of their assets in emerging markets and the rest in more reliable investments from the U.S. or other mature markets.

28.   Most are facing slow growth prospects in a mature market with increasing pressure from bigger and bigger retailers.

29.   Much of that went to the more mature markets of Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

30.   Other Asian countries that have sold similar debt include Japan, Singapore and Malaysia -- countries that have more mature financial markets and are far richer than the Philippines.