11.   The remaining funds will be spent buying additional properties.

12.   The vital ingredients have been an active citizenry, ambitious long-term planning and money spent to buy important tracts.

13.   The Treasury may lose more money because of the tax break than it would have to spend to buy the land outright, the official said.

14.   They might rush to the market to latch hold of a rising dollar and try to earn back the money they spent buying the derivatives.

15.   Upscale stores such as Neiman Marcus Group Inc. have fared the best, as people with money to spend bought jewelry and other luxury gifts early.

16.   We spent years buying the stuff they tried to sell us, but then we knew better.

17.   You could encourage investing by matching the money your kids spend to buy stock, he said.

18.   The state stands to lose a portion of the billions it has spent buying electricity for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers and two other financially ailing utilities.

19.   The suspects burned as police raided them and some had been spent to buy gold, home appliances and electronic goods.

20.   When the bank spends its hard currency to buy rubles, it adds to the demand for the ruble and therefore causes its rate to go up.