11.   Brokers often ask clients to increase their margins if the clients sustain large losses.

12.   Both UAP and Assurances Generales de France, another insurer, own banking units that sustained losses on loans to real-estate developers.

13.   But big bank stocks also sustained losses.

14.   But Mexicans are voting in nationwide elections Sunday, and the long-reigning Institutional Revolutionary Party is expected to sustain big losses.

15.   Executives of both America Online and the Microsoft Corp. have said they plan to sustain losses for the next few years to build market share.

16.   Gen. Kornukov said the militants have sustained heavy losses from the air strikes, and that some have retreated, but he gave no specifics.

17.   He believes he and head coach Mike Holmgren have built a team that can sustain personnel losses, just as Pittsburgh has.

18.   He and others said that the go-slow approach could speed up after the elections, particularly if Democrats sustain serious losses in the House and Senate.

19.   He had two friends missing from two companies, Eurobrokers and Cantor Fitzgerald LP, that appeared to have sustained heavy losses.

20.   He notes that anyone who sold an Orange County bond has sustained a loss.