Then, although policy makers were slow to realize it, the world was seeing the first clear problems caused by excessive investments in emerging markets.

Sociotropy is a personality trait characterized by excessive investment in interpersonal relationships.

In the 1990s that kind of self-dealing often led to excessive investment, which at least left a tangible legacy behind.

LEAD: China said today that two or three more years of measures to curb excessive investment were needed to bring capital spending under control.

In recent years, that has led to excessive investment in the automobile and petrochemical industries, among others.

Most recently, he struck a chord of economic nationalism, inveighing against excessive foreign investment.

No less urgent was the need to combat excessive and often unprofitable investment which had become endemic in times of negative real interest rates.

In 1981 the leadership attempted to limit uncontrolled, excessive investment in capital construction.

True, the telecommunications industry is still suffering from its wildly excessive investments before the bubble burst.

That is to say that we have excessive external investments.