31.   The United States will provide communication equipment and infantry weapons initially from its excess stocks.

32.   To pare down excess stocks, companies heavily discounted merchandise, offered free-financing and other incentives and factories throttled back production.

33.   For more than six months, the oil industry has been anticipating the resumption of Iraqi crude, which has prompted it to get rid of excess stocks.

34.   The Moslem-Croat federation has not even begun to destroy its excess stocks of artillery.

35.   Tin prices have been in the doldrums, plagued by persistently high global excess stocks.

36.   Prices have remained low, particularly over the past five years due to high excess stocks and lacklustre demand.