31.   California is buying higher amounts of Northwest power at a time when dry weather and declining river levels have reduced hydroelectric generating capacity.

32.   Car owners also have the option of buying unlimited amounts of gasoline at special stations where they can use official Foreign Exchange Certificates.

33.   China has already bought smaller amounts of U.S. soybeans but has yet to reveal further import plans.

34.   Financial experts said dollars were scarce because most Moldovan and Russian investors had bought huge amounts of foreign currency.

35.   Foreign stock funds bought huge amounts of U.S. dollars after they sold shares in the stock market, one dealer at a European bank said.

36.   Hashimoto, for his part, said sanctions could actually wind up hurting U.S. auto parts producers, because Japanese makers buy substantial amounts of American parts.

37.   He said some traders speculated the buyer was China, which bought large amounts of U.S. wheat and corn earlier this week.

38.   Many were fortunate and could buy sufficient amount of ornaments to satisfy their greedy in-laws.

39.   Non-aligned Finland bought large amounts of weapons from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

40.   STT also claimed that Finnish Ski Federation officials had been planning to buy large amounts of the performance-enhancing substances.