21.   Below that, you might not get the loan or, at the very least, you might have to pay above-average interest.

22.   A move to curtail tax fraud may hamper the efforts of many taxpayers to get loans from tax preparers.

23.   A growing number of Internet sites help small businesses check out financial alternatives or even get a loan.

24.   After she had married and gotten a loan from an in-law, she quit work and squeezed school into as many hours of the day as she could.

25.   Brokers get loans at a wholesale price from lenders and then add on points or fees when they market them to homeowners.

26.   Bullitt could not get construction loans at first.

27.   Businesses need adequate insurance to get loans for operating or expanding, said Sebelius, who also is president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

28.   Businessmen say they have a hard time getting loans from state-owned banks, while public enterprises are generously funded.

29.   But Fields spent eight months trying to get a loan, always arriving at the bank with a fresh batch of her cookies.

30.   But Krugman noted that Russia was getting IMF loans, even though it had suspended trading of the ruble.