supply bottleneck

"We have more serious problems than supply bottlenecks and delivery delays.

Those supply bottlenecks are chiefly responsible for this past week's higher prices at the pump.

Supply bottlenecks made the situation here even worse.

Keeping factories and businesses operating, even at production levels far below prewar standards, has been complicated by supply bottlenecks.

Yet Roche and others in the industry have said that the main supply bottleneck is not capsule-making but producing the pharmaceutical ingredient itself.

The fact that small and medium-sized European enterprises are being put at serious risk as a result of artificial supply bottlenecks is a serious problem.

He said Republicans might have to consider a gas-tax rollback or the temporary suspension of some environmental provisions to address supply bottlenecks.

Mr. Greenspan said the best indicator of whether "supply bottlenecks" are beginning to build can be seen in the lead times for orders on industrial materials.

If there is a parametric hazard in the mainland, the island dwellers suffer from supply bottlenecks leading to financial loss of debilitating dimensions.

Allowing the sale of a dirtier-burning blend, in place of a cleaner-burning one, might alleviate a supply bottleneck that is contributing to high prices.

Overcentralization, supply bottlenecks and arbitrary pricing have created a lumbering economy that cannot provide decent living standards or pay Poland's bills abroad.

Goods most affected by production and supply bottlenecks included automobile tires, high-tension electrical switches, spare parts for farm machines and telecommunications equipment.

Since West German manufacturers are already operating at almost full capacity, with many supply bottlenecks, West German industry will not be able to handle all the orders.

Immense shortages and supply bottlenecks are developing because producers and merchants are uncertain what to charge customers or what they will have to pay to replenish their stocks.

The whole plan may well be based on a good idea - namely the ability to react to supply bottlenecks - but the Member States already failed to comply with their reporting obligations under the old regulation.

But state monopolies in areas including the distribution of seed, fertilizers and farm machinery, as well as the processing and retailing of food, have produced supply bottlenecks that virtually annul many of the benefits of private farming.

When futures contracts expire and are settled with the delivery of a commodity, as opposed to a cash exchange, supply bottlenecks can affect prices, he said, and his interest was "how these 'pinch points' might affect futures contract prices."