Europe's computer industry is usually playing catch up with its faster- moving U.S. counterpart.

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Last fall, Nintendo started selling the Wii U, though it plays catch-up in some respects in bringing the ability to play high-definition games.

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The Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry says the U.S. is playing catch-up, accounting for one-third of those sales, mostly of disposable wipes and diapers.

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But only 140, 000 people in the U.S. have the disease--too few to catch the interest of big drug companies.

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It has been a little slower to catch on in the U.S., partly due to bureaucratic and airport security-related hurdles, industry representatives say.

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But, with the large-scale entry of the European Aeronautic, Defense and Space (EADS) consortium into the U.S. market, DoD is finding itself in a procurement Catch-22 that would have even Joseph Heller, the creator of the phrase, in awe.

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"What we're seeing is a catch-up market to get us back up to speed with the pace of the recovery" in the U.S., said Randy Frederick, director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab.

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