11.   Natural gas finds are generally less prized than oil discoveries because companies must have a ready buyer for the gas before they develop it.

12.   Ranches along the Rio Grande attract buyers ready to pay -- in cash -- more than the properties are worth.

13.   Still, Greene at Barclays thinks the issue will find plenty of ready buyers, especially from its former enemy, the United States.

14.   The government hopes that stock buybacks will buoy the market by providing ready buyers for the stocks that banks are selling at a time when investors are wary.

15.   The strategy seems to be to get rid of those units that will find ready buyers.

16.   The Treasury found ready buyers for the new securities this week after recent turbulence in world equity markets enhanced the allure of U.S. government debt.

17.   There is even a ready buyer.

18.   They typically buoy bonds, because the Fed is viewed as a ready buyer.

19.   They want to lead ready buyers to the Web to spend money.

20.   Traders say the coupon pass gives dealers an opportunity to sell Treasury securities piling up in inventory to a ready buyer.