The private banks cannot meet the demand for long-term loans because they cannot raise enough long-term capital, for two main reasons: first, Brazilians are reluctant to tie themselves into long-term investments because of the recent memory of rampant inflation.

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"Fifty-seven other scheme users cannot meet the tax demand, even if they were to sell all of their assets including their family home, " Mr Huitson's barrister claimed, drawing on a small survey of the scheme's users.

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In the meantime, many of our commercial networks will be overloaded with demand they cannot meet.

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The mines and the power stations they serve, mainly in eastern India, cannot meet even India's present demand for electricity.

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But it just cannot be true (in the absence of politicians doing something stupid like enacting price controls) that supply not meet demand.

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