31.   Several young, technology-based companies have postponed plans for initial public offerings and others are finding that demand is weak for their second or third stock offerings.

32.   Several Internet companies including Alta Vista, the Web directory and search site, have already postponed their plans to sell shares to the public.

33.   Since then, states such as Nevada, Oklahoma and New Mexico have postponed plans for deregulation.

34.   The agency recently postponed plans to sell one of its most highly prized assets, Bank Central Asia, citing poor market conditions.

35.   The big weapons buyers in Asia are abandoning some major arms deals and postponing ambitious plans for others.

36.   The company also postponed plans to issue U.S. dollar-denominated convertible bonds in a private placement and is currently negotiating the terms, he said.

37.   The city has postponed plans to buy scores of garbage trucks while it investigates its contracts with an Oklahoma company that has supplied most of the current fleet.

38.   The friend could not go, but Maciejewski could, so he postponed his plans to be a soccer coach and immigrated to the land of his dreams.

39.   The government has since postponed such plans.

40.   The Korean War was going on, so he postponed his plans to try the PGA Tour and served as a reserve officer in the Air Force.