uncompetitiveness

"We continue to spend and tax ourselves into economic uncompetitiveness."

This was largely a reflection of Britain's uncompetitiveness in world trade.

At first, because of their uncompetitiveness, the works were subsidized from the state budget, becoming a "black hole" in the national economy.

A classic sign of uncompetitiveness caused by an overvalued currency is declining exports.

The situation in many of Russia's monotowns is highly problematic due to their inflexibility and uncompetitiveness.

Our sense of uncompetitiveness against the Japanese has escalated from a political peeve into a ritual penance.

Such uncompetitiveness could be persistent and, with a single currency, the normal remedy of devaluation would not be available.

"For anybody to think in this day and age you can consign an owner to either uncompetitiveness or bankruptcy is sheer folly," Selig said.

Once the reality of some degree of uncompetitiveness in markets is acknowledged the consumer's sovereign status is inevitably diminished.

Paul de Jongh, the plan's project leader, tends to dismiss industry's worries about uncompetitiveness: 'These are partly ritual dances,' he said.

It was seen mainly as a "transition year" for him, as the chassis was in its second year and severe uncompetitiveness would be expected.

Phenomena like economic reform in the Soviet Union and China have been seen as responses to failing economies and intensifying uncompetitiveness.

Finally, we must not forget that in the global marketplace currently being created by the World Trade Organization, uncompetitiveness is a certain precursor of economic failure.

The challenge of so-called globalisation affects them directly, but insufficient account is perhaps taken of the persisting uncompetitiveness of European agriculture.

A combination of European recession, the virtual disappearance of the old Soviet market and the uncompetitiveness of old plants has led to spiraling unemployment.

Whilst Rindt finished fourth in the older 49 behind Jackie Stewart, Miles could only bring the 63 home in 10th place, confirming the car's uncompetitiveness.

This allowed Argentina to go on a $130 billion borrowing binge without addressing longstanding shortcomings, especially the corruption of its public finances and the nation's uncompetitiveness as an exporter.

The third is that will have singularly little effect, because of industry's narrow base and uncompetitiveness, revealing our dependence on the deus ex machina of North Sea oil.

This was perceived as a source of inefficiency and uncompetitiveness through overmanning and other policies, which the government was determined to remove in its quest to create an 'enterprise economy'.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, most of the monotowns' dominant enterprises were privatised, but by the end of the 1990s, many had gone bankrupt due to uncompetitiveness.

Talbot sees alcohol as the main reason behind the collapse of Australia's standing in the swimming world in the 1970s and the subsequent prolonged period of international uncompetitiveness in the 1980s.

The deep-grained uncompetitiveness of the British economy, most notably its persistent failure to produce a sufficient supply of needed skills, has to be part of the explanation of such a trade imbalance.

The truth is, judging from the current record of the EEC, that countries which wish to expand its powers against those of their own parliaments, are likely in so doing to extend bureaucracy, regulation and uncompetitiveness.

I have the same experience where my own country is concerned. Nonetheless, I also want fully to acknowledge my country' s extreme uncompetitiveness in the construction sphere, something which also leads to our having high housing costs.

"Meeting of the Board" - another satire, this one set in a future in which American industry has been badly compromised by workers purchasing full joint-stock ownership of their companies, mismanaging them into a state of stolid uncompetitiveness.