11.   Bell recalled that before the statute was passed, President Jimmy Carter had been accused of laundering bank funds through his peanut warehouse.

12.   Bielski said mayors have been lobbying for the right to raise funds through municipal bonds, as localities in the U.S. do.

13.   Both sell funds exclusively through brokers and charge investors an up-front fee, known as a load.

14.   Both talk about hiring more police officers, holding down taxes, improving child care services and schools and saving more state funds through better management.

15.   Braddock said the new company still lacked expertise in international investing, but after the merger would be in a much stronger position to sell its funds through banks.

16.   A few managers stayed at the helm of one fund through the entire decade.

17.   A seven-member advisory panel controlled by Ms. Watkins would administer the fund through a community organization, which has yet to be named.

18.   All of them were derived without federal funds through corporate-paid research programs.

19.   All told, the best course for a person your age is just to ride a portfolio of solid funds through markets good and bad.

20.   But Bankers Trust has struck a separate deal to sell its funds through regional banks including Barnett Banks of Florida, First Chicago and Shawmut.