21.   Is your industry one that gets hit particularly hard during tough times, when companies stop growing and people cut back on major purchases and luxuries?

22.   It has announced two other major purchases in the past several weeks.

23.   It is the second major Thermo purchase in the U.K. in recent years.

24.   Its major purchases were Neiman Marcus, which it bought from Carter Hawley Hale, then in bankruptcy.

25.   Japanese often wait until they receive their bonuses before making major purchases.

26.   Major purchases like automobiles were largely responsible.

27.   Major purchases were postponed.

28.   LG and the Tongyang business groups are suspected of failing to report major purchases of Dacom stocks to the authorities.

29.   Many of the works went to Andrew Mellon, one of the few collectors able to make major purchases during the Depression.

30.   More respondents also intended to make major purchases.