41.   The idea is for the stock funds to provide growth.

42.   The fund provided loans to defend the fixed exchange value of national currencies, typically in return for promises to fight inflation at home.

43.   The fund will provide partial funding for three or four projects, said Claus Graf, vice president of PDVSA, as the state oil company is known.

44.   The funds can provide the ratings to institutional investors but not to individuals.

45.   The funds may not provide enough balance, for example, or they may have overlapping holdings or inappropriate risk levels.

46.   The law requires that such funds provide money to at least two separate schools.

47.   The officials also assert that Street wants to control the patronage that the housing fund would provide.

48.   The new, merged fund will provide financing packages to entrepreneurs, small and medium-size businesses, and larger private enterprises, McCurry said.

49.   The new funds are providing a boon in research by scientists and biotech companies that have long shunned a field in which profits seemed as unlikely as a cure.

50.   The revolving loan fund provides technical and other aid for small businesses operated by Tibetan refugees and their descendants in India and the United States.