41.   Financing the purchases was not a problem, either.

42.   Fleet Financial Group would finance the purchase for Oakland Investors.

43.   First Merchants, which finances purchases of used automobiles by customers who have weak credit records, also blamed flat loan volume.

44.   For Persimmon, a U.K. homebuilder, the purchase would be financed with a combination of equity and debt.

45.   Foreign investors need dollars to buy U.S. securities and buy dollars to finance their purchases.

46.   Gorton believes that the only way the private sector could finance a purchase of the BPA is by raising rates for consumers.

47.   He even offered to finance the purchase.

48.   He ruled out issuing new stock to finance a purchase.

49.   He said lower interest rates tend to boost sales because about half of RV buyers use credit to finance their purchases.

50.   He noted Helms has been highly critical of the Export-Import Bank, which helps foreign governments finance purchases of such U.S. products as Boeing planes.