31.   Mounting debt is but one reason U.S. consumers are expected to put away their wallets.

32.   Mounting debts, thousands of bankruptcies and slowing economies caused Korean stocks, bonds and the currency, the won, to plunge in the past two months.

33.   Norfolk, Virginia-based TFC attributed its quarterly loss to mounting debts from bad loans.

34.   Now, with talk about trading floors around the country being shuttered, the Board is trying to cut costs and pay down a mounting debt load.

35.   Privately, however, loyalists of Kim defend him by saying that the suspected cover-up of mounting debts is a typical business practice in Seoul.

36.   Rembrandt is older and wiser, having lost his beloved young wife, Saskia, and acquired mounting debts.

37.   She would hide the mounting debt from her husband, stalking the mailman so she could get the credit card bills.

38.   Soaring inflation and mounting foreign debt have caused serious economic difficulties in Iran.

39.   Some, including Roberts, have filed for bankruptcy because of mounting debts and loss of income.

40.   South Korean stocks dropped for the second day as a default by the Jinro Group stoked concern over mounting debts at other large industrial groups.