As to the criticism that the S.B.A.'s new rules include too few industries, Ms. Mangi said that the agency planned to revisit the issue "approximately every five years" and "update the affected industry sectors".
"For too long our economy has been dependent on just one corner of the country and too few industries.
And if too much venture money chases too few deals, the industry may have another mess on its hands.
Already, regulators worry that there are too few auditors for the industry to be competitive.
Too many schools are turning out too many graduates looking to fill too few jobs in an industry that runs lean.
Are there too few grownups in the music industry?
They say the subsidies — in the form of tax breaks on diesel fuel and aid for building, modernizing and scrapping vessels — results in too many boats to chase too few fish, and leaves the industry dependent on public largess.
While the industry had too few players to count in the 1990's, Scrapbook Retailer magazine says that there are now about 3,000 independent scrapbook supply stores in the United States and 1,600 manufacturers of specialty scrapbooking products like albums, acid-free paper, pens, stickers, stamps, templates, ornamental charms, tags, labels, embossers, paper trimmers and die cuts.
Too many workers are stuck in obsolete manufacturing industries and too few are available for potential growth areas like energy and health technologies.
Mexico City still rates as one of the planet's more toxic places, along with Beijing, New Delhi, Jakarta, Bangkok, Tehran and other mega cities with too many people, too many cars, too many polluting industries and too few coordinated efforts to clear the air.
