21.   If credit is tight, companies cannot finance their growth and economic output declines.

22.   Instead, the company has financed its own expansion by reinvesting profits.

23.   Lower borrowing costs make it cheaper for companies to finance their businesses and boost the size of earnings and dividends paid shareholders.

24.   Lower borrowing costs make it easier for companies to finance their businesses.

25.   Lower Treasury yields make it easier for companies to finance their businesses.

26.   Lower interest rates hurt corporate profits because companies finance long-term capital expenditures and expansion by issuing bonds.

27.   Lower interest rates make it cheaper for companies to finance their businesses.

28.   Lower rates let companies finance their businesses more cheaply.

29.   Lower yields -- and thus expectations for lower interest rates -- make it cheaper for companies to finance debt.

30.   Ms. Kraft has gone to such lengths because her insurance company will finance few of the procedures she needs to become pregnant.