Earlier, regional development efforts were criticised for poor results and for leading to problems such as over-investment in fishing vessels.
Commodity prices went up sharply following the oil crisis, and led to over-investment on the part of the state.
Consequently, over-investment in employees usually pays off.
Yet farming profits soon disappear if there is unwise investment in buildings and, even more easily, if there is over-investment in machinery.
In these cases everything which accrued to us was a net benefit with no possible risks of over-investment by foreigners in the sterling area.
A serious slump was on its way because of over-investment and misestimation of demand, and some major flag carriers were already in considerable trouble.
Large-scale employment in heavy industry can be due to over-investment in years gone by.
The enormous over-investment in that sense to meet this terribly uneconomic need for a short period of the day is bound to be formidable.