11.   Foreign bond funds provide diversity in fixed-income portfolios, offering some protection from downturns in the domestic market.

12.   Gingrich and others asserted that the fund would provide the hospitals with more money than they are currently slated to receive.

13.   Governors Whitman and Edgar said the rainy day fund should provide outright grants, not loans.

14.   He also received NASA funds provided to Dermott for work on the dynamics of dust in the solar system.

15.   He said that for many victims, the moratorium would, in effect, never end because the fund would provide a more generous award than a lawsuit.

16.   Ienishi said the fund also will provide financial support to victims of any similar fiasco that may result from mismanagement by the central government and drug companies.

17.   In such a system, claims would be frozen and the fund would provide interim aid and help work out who will be repaid and how.

18.   International bond funds can provide diversity, strong returns and higher yields than their domestic counterparts.

19.   It did an informal survey and found that most funds will be providing income statements in line with the new tax law.

20.   Like any mutual fund, Internet funds provide low-budget shareholders the advantage of diversification.