The central bank may also be encouraged by the report's findings that companies are less worried about having too many workers or idle factories.

In the industrial economy, too much capital spending was fully evident in idle factories.

But with the factory idle, farming alone will not pay all the bills, and residents are bitter.

Terni sought to diversify a few years ago by converting idle factories into movie studios.

The first evening they stopped at a deserted campsite across the road from an idle factory.

It is Saturday night in this hardscrabble city of idle shoemaking factories, and the place is jumping.

Specifically, the plan called for state seizure of idle factories and farm land where the owner had failed to pay property taxes.

CAP was to do the same for idle factories.

He also struck a deal to manufacture Renaults in an idle factory near Moscow.

There are layoffs and idle factories in other industrial centers as well.