1.   The bank sat on our loan application for two months.

2.   Our loan application has been approved.

3.   Hallelujah, the bank is approving our loan application.

4.   In future they would no longer be allowed to finance public-sector deficits or loan applications from large debtors.

5.   The kinds of multimedia products involved are likely to be robust, read-only discs, ideal for loan applications.

6.   As Attorney General Janet Reno observed, blacks are no better off if a bank shuns their neighborhood than if it rejects their loan applications.

7.   ATLANTA - Equifax and more than a dozen major lenders are developing an information exchange to help evaluate small business loan applications.

8.   Banks are taking loan applications for ticket buyers.

9.   Big banks now receive only one-third ofall home loan applications as smaller lenders more aggressively go after this market.