21.   Construction shares had fallen as investors borrowed and sold shares in anticipation of future drops, given the mounting debt and dwindling profits of builders.

22.   Credit cards are the largest portion of the mounting debt burden, and generally the highest-cost debt.

23.   Earlier this month, Sanyo Securities Co., a medium-sized brokerage firm, went bankrupt after failing to repay mounting debts.

24.   Faucett, which has rights to fly to Miami, was grounded last month amid mounting debts.

25.   Even before the terrorist attack the Saudi system was looking wobbly, with persistent deficits, mounting debt and growing unemployment.

26.   Hunt and his lawyers hope to spend the next few weeks convincing a judge that Levin is alive and skipped town to avoid criminal prosecution and mounting debt.

27.   Huffine said the IRS had not notified him of the mounting debt.

28.   If a deal is reached, it would be an important milestone in the effort by British Telecommunications to pay down its mounting debt load.

29.   Korea is letting its currency weaken at a time when mounting debts and a slowing economy have unleashed a wave of bankruptcies.

30.   Last week, Megaworld Chairman Andrew Tan attempted to quell speculation that his companies are in financial trouble because of mounting debt.