11.   Sprint could spend proceeds from the sale on its cable television alliances with Tele-Communications Inc., Comcast Corp., and Cox Communications Inc.

12.   The bill establishes the lottery that voters approved in November, but lawmakers were unable to agree on how the proceeds would be spent on scholarships and schools.

13.   The company has spent the proceeds of two share issues in the past three years trying unsuccessfully to bring the unit back to health.

14.   The remaining proceeds will be spent for infrastructure improvements and social programs in a bid to attract industry to the state, a government official said.

15.   The transaction announced today is part of a plan to spend those proceeds by buying back shares and acquiring life insurers, annuity providers and money managers.

16.   Then, as if to encourage Americans to spend the proceeds to benefit the struggling economy, the president added that more relief will be coming.

17.   They differ, however, on how the proceeds should be spent.

18.   They said Morales would be overstepping his authority if he were to commit the state to spending settlement proceeds without legislative authorization.

19.   Those plans, and the current resolution being discussed, give the U.N. control over how and where the oil is shipped and how proceeds are spent.

20.   The program lets Iraq sell unlimited quantities of oil on condition that proceeds are spent on food, medicine and other humanitarian goods, and war reparations.