101.   Late Monday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which regulates Tokyo-based credit unions, ordered Cosmo Credit to stop taking new deposits or extend new loans.

102.   Meanwhile, an International Monetary Fund mission was in Kiev to determine whether or not to extend its loans to the former Soviet republic.

103.   Many smaller companies encounter difficulties in getting financing as banks prefer to extend loans to big corporations.

104.   Most of them are facing the problem of meeting the requirement because of their sizeable losses in securities investment as well as losses in extending margin loans.

105.   Motorola extended the loan to allow Telsim to purchase equipment.

106.   News reports have said the Japanese government may extend substantial loans to Russia.

107.   Obuchi told Jiang that Japan was in economic difficulty, but the loan was extended especially in respect to his visit.

108.   On a belief that the governments would eventually take over private sector debts, foreign lenders were willing to extend loans.

109.   On Monday, authorities ordered Cosmo Bank Corp. to stop taking new deposits or extending new loans.

110.   On Thursday, Tokyo prosecutors arrested four Dai-Ichi executives on suspicion that they extended illegal loans to a corporate racketeer.