51.   Multinational companies often use them to set up foreign subsidiaries or finance acquisitions.

52.   Munich Re will finance the acquisition primarily from its own resources, press spokesman Christian Jacobi said.

53.   Munich Re, formally known as Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG, will finance the acquisition primarily from its own resources, spokesman Christian Jacobi said.

54.   No other firm that does leveraged buyouts -- financing the acquisition of corporations largely through debt -- was even given a shot.

55.   Perhaps the most intriguing one is how Raks will finance its proposed acquisition of a company three times its size in sales.

56.   Proost declined to comment on whether some of the repurchased stock could be used to finance an acquisition.

57.   Raks would not say how it plans to finance the acquisition of a business three times its own size.

58.   Rather than repurchase its own stock with borrowed money, as so many companies were doing, it issued stock to finance its acquisitions.

59.   Robinson said the company will use the funds to finance pending acquisitions of local telephone lines in several Western states and to pursue acquisition of other digital wireless licenses.

60.   RWE, based in Essen, wanted to sell its stake as part of a broader plan to finance big acquisitions in its core business, electricity generation.