Foreign producers, especially inefficient ones, become content with a guaranteed share of the market.

What really seems to separate the productive factories from the inefficient ones is something more basic than automation, and yet more complex.

Why, critics ask, should the state help subsidize dairy farms, particularly small and inefficient ones, at the expense of consumers?

Ironically, this burden is falling upon Japan's efficient export industries as much as on inefficient, over-regulated ones.

I just couldn't bring myself to dismiss the inefficient ones.

In 1975, new windows were installed to replace the energy inefficient ones.

We need to re-evaluate all our security programs and then separate the effective ones from programs that are outdated, inefficient or duplicative.

A second principle was that children were workers, albeit small and inefficient ones.

This means allowing efficient companies to profit and inefficient ones to fail.

The next step in the plan was to concentrate on privatizing large industrial enterprises and closing chronically inefficient ones, thus adding to unemployment.