21.   Steve Griffin, the chairman of MusicCity, said the company was not responsible for what files users exchanged because the trades took place through their own computers.

22.   That would enable trades to take place without the current cumbersome and expensive system of re-registering share ownership at company headquarters in often-distant cities.

23.   The deal struck between Lincoln and Rodriguez in spring training that no trade will take place seems as if it will stick.

24.   The market price, according to Gordon Howald of Credit Lyonnais Securities, is by definition the price at which the last trade took place.

25.   The possibility that Hill will be traded still exists because trades can take place after the deadline, but players must clear waivers.

26.   They claim, for instance, that no trade takes more than a second to complete, from the desktop to the stock exchange and back again.

27.   They might even have remained figures of secondary importance had the cocaine trade not taken a timely, lucrative turn.

28.   Trade will take a back seat during the two-day summit, according to Japanese and White House officials.

29.   Trades take seconds, which is how long it can take for small fortunes to be made and lost even though the price may shift only by pennies.

30.   Under Tokyo Stock Exchange rules, trades can only take place if the number of buyers and sellers for a stock are equal.