Each year, as many as 80,000 visitors flock to Dublin, drawn to the antiquated bottling plant and its old-fashioned soda.

They also warn of further delays as antiquated plants in some metropolitan areas become overloaded.

It has been hurt by frequent management changes and an antiquated plant in Chicago.

So when American engineers found the antiquated plant barely operating earlier this year, there was no question that repairing it was important to the rebuilding of Iraq.

He looked at the antiquated plant and instructed the Schweizers to "get out of here".

In Chicago, he spent three years turning a huge but antiquated plant into a profitable facility.

No one is talking about cutting dividends or firing workers or shutting down anything except antiquated plants.

But BioPort inherited an antiquated plant that has had trouble meeting Food and Drug Administration standards.

When Hyatt Clark workers bought their company, they took on an antiquated plant in a deeply troubled industry.

Critics contend that the authority would have to commit itself to buying antiquated plants, some of which date from the 1950's, without knowing what the price would be.