"There was all kinds of buildup when the initial batch entered registration, but we haven't seen demand materialize.
Ms. Matura added that Daimler's plant in Hambach, France, would be able to meet the demand for electric Smarts, should that demand materialize.
David Plavin, president of the Airports Council International, said MidAmerica was unusual only because these days "most people don't have the foresight and the courage to build before the demand materializes".
Those 10 million "lost" barrels per day in expected consumption may not seem like a lot, given the total figure, but keep in mind that Big Oil's multibillion-dollar investments in tough energy were predicated on all that added demand materializing, thereby generating the kind of high prices needed to offset the increasing costs of extraction.
They extend long membrane protrusions that make cell cell contact with mature cells, while exercising a capacity to delay their final differentiation until a local demand materializes.
The Congress noted with concern that, if present trends continue and potential demands materialize, there is the prospect of a serious gap between the world's needs for industrial and other wood products and the capacity of the world's forests to supply these and other essential goods and services.
Given a design horizon consisting of several time periods in which product demands materialize, the objective is to select the design that maximizes the expected profit.
BP was seen as prescient for having invested in the remote field in the early 1990s in anticipation of a boom in Chinese energy demand that materialized a decade later.
"There was a time," he added, "when it was routine to build in advance of immediate demand: Newark, Dulles, Dallas and even Denver were all built before the demand actually materialized.
As huge Super Bowl demand suddenly materialized from the big Northeast market two weeks ago, some airlines quietly raised top coach fares on those routes.
But that demand never materialized once researchers discovered that most chimps do not get sick from HIV.
