21.   Officials are eager to pay for at least part of the operating costs by selling recovered materials.

22.   Peterman built a thriving business until he was charged last year with selling obscene material and faced the prospect of bankruptcy and jail.

23.   That creates an unacceptably high risk that some material could be sold to potential aggressors like Iraq, Libya, North Korea or Serbia.

24.   That followed investigations by the Central Intelligence Agency that showed China had sold nuclear materials to Pakistan and Iran.

25.   The boost in funding for sunbelt states would be a boon for companies that produce and sell aggregate materials such as Florida Rock Industries Inc. and Texas Industries Inc.

26.   The Clinton administration is mulling sanctions against Beijing for selling nuclear material to Pakistan.

27.   The evidence suggests that Nicholson sold the material to the Russians, officials said.

28.   The material is sold to a polymer company that melts it down and converts it to plastic.

29.   The problems of crime and nuclear proliferation could well merge, for that matter, if Russian gangsters start selling nuclear material.

30.   The salvaged material is sold to make more jugs, cans and boxes.