81.   Foreign investment trusts and hedge funds, and Japanese companies unwinding cross share holdings, sold off banking shares, traders said.

82.   Freer bought most of his work at a time when China, destitute and chaotic, was selling off its cultural patrimony willy-nilly and cheaply.

83.   Frankenberg spent two years selling off the software companies Noorda acquired.

84.   Gold prices rose, recouping early losses as concern eased that producers were selling off inventory to lock in current gold prices.

85.   Governments in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands all plan to sell off stakes in their national telephone companies in the next year.

86.   He cut the heavy payroll taxes that had discouraged job creation and investment and sold off industries the Socialists had nationalized.

87.   He has trimmed wasteful spending, sold off some costly manufacturing facilities, and tried to professionalize the notoriously free-spirited atmosphere at Apple.

88.   He is urging Chrysler to sell off some nonautomotive assets, as Chrysler has said it plans to do.

89.   He said he did not have any particular agencies in mind, but suggested selling off their assets to secular agencies.

90.   He presided over several rounds of layoffs, sold off divisions to raise cash and replaced a long list of executives who failed to live up to his expectations.