On such capital-intensive projects, any over-runs can rapidly push up the overall costings.

This sort of investment would generate many more jobs, they said, than investments in capital-intensive projects like rebuilding the power grid or the oil industry.

Power plants are huge, capital-intensive projects that pay out over decades.

"It was a very capital-intensive project," he said.

The government allocated 47% of its investment to capital-intensive projects.

James Dolan and the board had indicated that they would not support the capital-intensive, money-losing project.

Since these are capital-intensive projects, the company runs the possibility of burning through capital too quickly and folding.

Following the Soviet model of economic development, these were large-scale, capital-intensive projects.

Meanwhile, Mr. Taylor and others say the companies are shying away from large, capital-intensive projects.

Due to the financial crisis we are clearly facing delays in a lot of energy- and capital-intensive projects.