21.   Berzins said cable companies were not like telecommunications companies, which have been burning through cash with no certainty that their technology investments would pay off.

22.   Both companies have burned through millions in capital trying to develop a novel drug therapy called antisense.

23.   Both new series presumably could burn through characters like so many chunks of charcoal.

24.   A lot of teams have been burned through free agency.

25.   A single downloaded article from USA Today burns up one kilobyte, so heavy users will burn through a small fortune in transmission costs.

26.   All the Big Three automakers quickly burned through their cash reserves during the last recession five years ago, and they have been determined not to repeat the experience.

27.   Also, if you think you can get around the burning limit by closing Pressplay and burning through another software program like Nero, forget it.

28.   Bush Junior is burning through a huge load of cash, and his contributors are wondering where all the dough went.

29.   But as dot-coms crumbled, Amazon has absorbed a barrage of criticism for burning through cash.

30.   But only the weather heated up, as the sun burned through and the occasional whiff of Coppertone drifted through the crowds near the popular observation points.