Inventories, which were temporarily in surplus, have tightened due to an OPEC production cutback.

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By cutting production, it would avoid a surplus stock of cars building up.

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This should generate 5, 250MW when finished, increasing electricity production in the country fivefold, providing a surplus for export and allowing Ethiopia to open up as a manufacturer.

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More critical still, in order for Japan to maintain a surplus in its current account, companies should invest even more to expand production and sales abroad, so as to increase earnings that can be repatriated as dividends to Japan.

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This helped reduce Europe's reliance on imported food but led before long to over-production, and the creation of "mountains" and "lakes" of surplus food and drink.

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Worldwide steel production got schmeissed and utilities lived off their inventories of steam coal when generating capacity turned into a surplus.

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It has to provide a greater than before consumer surplus to get the consumer to purchase the new products (or those things made by the new method of production).

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Before joining Linear, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he used a surplus flight computer from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to research the control of fermentation for use in fields such as pharmaceutical production.

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