21.   A twin rally in U.S. bonds and stocks encouraged expectations that foreigners might keep buying those assets too.

22.   A weaker dollar discourages foreign investors from buying American assets like Treasury securities.

23.   But because Enron had guaranteed most of the money the partnerships had used to buy assets from it, the company was essentially selling assets to itself.

24.   But his spokesman, Robert Ratliffe, maintained that McCaw was selling properties to generate cash to buy telecom assets on the cheap.

25.   But the dollar is significant because its value on currency markets will influence whether foreign investors will want to buy assets valued in dollars, like stocks and bonds.

26.   Create partnerships, funded mostly by outside investors, to buy Enron assets at prices higher than Enron carried them on its books.

27.   Demand for U.S. assets was expected to generate demand for the dollars foreign investors need to buy American assets.

28.   Each company said it might be interested in buying certain assets of KPNQwest if the price was right.

29.   Earlier this year, Apple stopped licensing its OS and bought the assets of Power Computing.

30.   Effectively, Levine rejected an offer for one company unless the bidders bought an asset from a separate company with conflicting interests.