By this time, the Rock Island could not afford to replace the clearly worn-out equipment.

But it always has the option of shrinking by failing to replace worn-out or obsolete equipment.

Even if I couldn't trust the supply line, or the weather, or the worn-out equipment, I trusted my colleagues.

However, with growing demand, the existing worn-out equipment is insufficient in quantity and quality.

The team also criticized managers for expecting employees to work around worn-out equipment and for intervening in decisions better left to control room workers.

In addition, the station received a grant to replace worn-out equipment, but in order to get the money, it had to sue the Government.

And he sent the worn-out equipment and the misfits, commissioned and enlisted, someplace where they would be out of sight.

"For the past five years no one put any money in the real economy," he said, after complaining about his laboratory's woefully outdated and worn-out equipment.

However, the greater the inherited capital stock,, the less need there will be for adding to the capital stock, or even replacing worn-out equipment.

He said officers were discouraged by aging patrol cars, worn-out equipment and a general feeling that the best of times were behind them.