1.   The bank did not extend far in either direction.

2.   Across the nation, the bank extends loans to blacks at more than twice the proportion of the average bank.

3.   All too often at this stage of the business cycle, the loans that banks extend later make up a disproportionate share of total nonperforming loans.

4.   But he was unable to announce any progress in mitigating the deepening crisis aside from a pledge that banks would extend their operating hours this week.

5.   But that does not mean the bank extends an open hand any more than its competitors do.

6.   His banks could extend the loans.

7.   In Mexico, a Raffle for Homes In Mexico, where money is tight, banks extend few mortgages, so Mexican entrepreneurs have devised cooperative monthly home raffles.

8.   Investors speculated that loans Japanese banks have extended to other Asian countries, experiencing market turmoil, could go sour.

9.   Last spring, it needed money but no banks would extend loans and business was slow.

10.   Meanwhile, Spanish banks are extending their control over Latin American pensions.