31.   Moreover, the government does not gather data on how much tax revenue it loses when companies finance deferred-compensation benefits through life insurance products.

32.   Most companies must finance their research from product sales, he said, but at BBN, the research arm is self-supporting.

33.   Neoforma wanted these companies to finance its operations by paying fees for each product sold through its Web site.

34.   New-economy companies generally finance their expansion with stock rather than loans.

35.   One example will come in the way the company finances films.

36.   Rising interest rates make it more expensive for companies to finance mergers, and crimp demand for loans from consumers and businesses.

37.   Quarta said the company would finance a Holvis acquisition from existing resources.

38.   Rising borrowing costs can hurt stocks, though, by slowing economic growth and make it more expensive for companies to finance their businesses.

39.   Rising interest rates hurt profits by making it more expensive for companies to finance their businesses.

40.   Separately, J.P. Morgan has set up special purpose entities on behalf of its clients, in part to enable companies to finance themselves more cheaply.