11.   Chase already extends loans and manages bond sales for those customers.

12.   Companies outside the financial industry could benefit from such a plan by bolstering confidence in the soundness of the economy and encouraging reluctant banks to extend new loans.

13.   Daiichi Sogo had extended numerous loans to customers who offered land as collateral during the real estate boom.

14.   Deogracias Vistan, head of the Bankers Association of the Philippines, said banks are reluctant to extend new loans because of the volatile financial markets.

15.   Each owns, manages or extends loans on dozens if not hundreds of properties.

16.   DKB is prohibited from extending new loans -- except for mortgage and consumer loans -- until the end of the year.

17.   Even if lenders agree to extend the loans, the terms are likely to be more onerous, Lewis said.

18.   Extending those loans is a key to the country avoiding defaults and a deepening of its financial crisis.

19.   Foreign banks are refusing to extend new loans.

20.   Harmon said he would like to extend loans for the Chinese to buy everything from medical equipment to water-filtration systems.