About a third of them plan to increase their companies' capital spending during that time.

大约有三分之一的受访CEO计划在未来六个月增加公司的资本支出。

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The shortfall in capital spending compared with plan is as perplexing as it is worrying for ministers.

ECONOMIST: Public investment

The key to their argument was that the government's deficit rules allow capital spending to be increased without abandoning Plan A as the Treasury's so-called "fiscal mandate" targets current not capital spending.

BBC: Switching spending to capital projects

For instance, Arch Coal and Consol Energy, the second- and fourth-largest U.S. producers, don't plan to increase spending on new capital equipment through 2002.

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