1.   -- Defecting scientists from the former Soviet Union said they had used stockpiles of the virus to make biological warfare weapons.

2.   Chief Executive David Lyon said demand has fallen, particularly in the U.S., because customers were using stockpiles hoarded after raw material prices jumped last year.

3.   Even Japan could be tempted to use its stockpile of fissile material to join the Asian nuclear-weapons club.

4.   In years past, economists used commodity stockpiles as a gauge of where prices, and therefore inflation, was headed.

5.   Stockpiles are used after the harvests end, when fresh coffee is no longer available for roasters.

6.   These stockpiles are used for research purposes only.