11.   Plogmann said similar transactions occurred at public banks in Kiel and Hanover.

12.   Quinn also pressed hard on the idea that others who had engaged in similar transactions were never charged with crimes.

13.   Similar transactions have been completed in other emerging markets.

14.   Similar transactions have fetched one-to-two times sales.

15.   The Globe has reported that SFX added a similar transaction fee to tickets purchased at the box office for the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts in Mansfield.

16.   The reaction by large investors to the Compaq-Hewlett Packard proposed merger will make boards more cautious about proposing similar transactions.

17.   The same would be true of the estate of any other person who did a similar transaction.

18.   Valero decided to pursue a sale now, before a spate of similar transactions narrows the field of potential suitors.

19.   Past months have also seen substantial inflows from similar corporate transactions, stock investments and the proceeds of government bond sales.

20.   Shares of securities companies weakened after allegations that Nikko, Yamaichi and Daiwa Securities conducted illegal transactions similar to those carried out at Nomura Securities Co.