11.   He saw it as a needed investment to transform the Stars into a winning team and build a fan base.

12.   In the United States, the price crashes forced domestic oil producers to abandon much-needed investment programs, leaving them unable to raise production when prices soared.

13.   Investors now are limited in what they can recover by way of assets from failed enterprises on Indian trust lands, and that discourages badly needed investment.

14.   Many observers regard the property as key to attracting desperately needed foreign investment.

15.   Nissan was strapped for cash, which prevented it from making badly needed investments in its aging product line.

16.   New taxes, they said, could thwart much needed investment as businesses are left with less cash to spend.

17.   Political unrest in the past decade repeatedly scared off much needed foreign investment, bedeviling government efforts to resuscitate the moribund economy.

18.   Such changes are considered necessary if Venezuela is to attract needed foreign investment to push the economy out of a four-year recession, traders said.

19.   The combined firms will be able to pool their resources to make the needed investments in their businesses.

20.   The company produces load-balancing applications that smooth out delivery of Internet Web pages, and needed investment cash.