11.   Harris would not say what that one step was, or discuss any other terms of the proposed purchase.

12.   In one case, the authorities cited a document that they related to a proposed purchase of enriched uranium.

13.   Morishita said two main issues dividing owners and management were the proposed purchases by MCA of Virgin Records and CBS.

14.   Some analysts see the same dynamic at work in the proposed purchase by General Motors of two or three plants of bankrupt Daewoo Motor Co.

15.   The analyst said the document showed executives had misstated how much second-quarter earnings were inflated by foreign currency gains and the proposed purchase of a Japanese distributor.

16.   The commission is conducting a review of the proposed purchase of Random House by Bertelsmann AG of Germany, which already owns Bantam Doubleday Dell.

17.   The German Federal Cartel office blocked the proposed purchase in February and the companies had appealed to the German government for approval.

18.   The proposed purchase also gives acquisition-hungry HFS an entree into the fast-growing time share resort business without committing it buying real estate.

19.   The Raytheon-Hughes transaction will be reviewed simultaneously with another proposed purchase by Raytheon.

20.   The proposed purchase is still being resisted by investors, though, some seven months after it was announced.