1.   As bad loans proliferate, investors are less willing to buy bank debt and equity, making capital scarcer.

2.   Firms raised more external finance than they needed, using the surplus to repay bank debts and build up excess cash.

3.   It took him three years to clear his bank debts.

4.   An acquisition by Perfumania would free Model Imperial from the forbearance agreement and enable it to pay off bank debt, Silverstein said.

5.   Any remaining proceeds will go to repaying bank debt, according to the filing.

6.   As a result, the government has offered individuals and companies different proposals to alleviate the burden of higher bank debts.

7.   At the time of the stock sale, Case depended mostly on short-term, floating-rate bank debt.

8.   A billion dollars of bank debt comes due in August, and many vendors have pressured the company to push up its payment schedule.

9.   A mart refinancing package, consisting mainly of bonds and bank debt, was circulated on Wall Street this spring.

10.   A powerful, autocratic president like Carlos Salinas de Gortari could sell off state companies, oust union bosses, renegotiate bank debt, and secure NAFTA.