1.   Analysts said this would be a likely move to boost cash reserves.

2.   Banks showed signs of lagging loan business, boosting reserves for future loan losses to cover consumers who run into trouble, especially in making credit card payments.

3.   Cigna last year joined other large property and casualty insurers in boosting its reserves to pay claims from businesses forced to clean up hazardous waste.

4.   In order for Paul Revere to have the level of capital promised when it agreed to sell to Provident, it was forced to boost its reserves.

5.   In theory, speculators could lose money if the IMF credit line helps a country stabilize by buying back its own currency or boosting its reserves.

6.   Insurers such as Aetna Inc. have boosted their reserves for claims from business policyholders before selling units.

7.   Like private insurers, the FWUA is raising rates and boosting reserves.

8.   Mobil has said it wants to boost its reserves outside the U.S.

9.   New ways of pumping oil from ever-greater ocean depths at lower cost have boosted recoverable reserves.

10.   Some departments, including Phoenix and Glendale, are trying to boost the reserves, recruiting them just as they would full-time officers.