31.   The economic landscape is littered with the carcasses of businesses that spent too much on ambience and not enough on, say, tasty food or fun rides.

32.   The economic landscape looks pretty scary right now, with business cutbacks, pessimistic consumers and worried investors.

33.   What he failed to pick up was the incredible wasted investment, which now hangs like a dark cloud over the economic landscape.

34.   Young, growing companies in technology are searing the economic landscape with torrid initial public offerings, solid earnings and strong stock performance.

35.   A distorted economic landscape, meanwhile, may be pushing many businesses close to bankruptcy.

36.   Corporate bankruptcies are now increasing steadily as tight liquidity and high interest rates are now familiar features in the affected regional economic landscape.

37.   I know that the economic landscape needs to be altered.

38.   Rich, hugely successful government-linked corporations dominate the economic landscape.

39.   Still, the economic landscape seems yet more desolate, with jobs more scarce than vegetation.

40.   The transformed economic landscape has altered the priorities.