31.   Cash flow, a frequently used measure of financial performance for companies with heavy debt loads, is earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

32.   Clarence Williams, whose printing company in the neighborhood where he grew up was looted and vandalized, took on heavy debt, too.

33.   China Eastern Airlines, the first Chinese airline to sell shares to the public, may face a bumpy ride due to its heavy debt load.

34.   Consumers also have a heavy debt load already.

35.   Construction companies fell on investor concern about their heavy debt loads.

36.   Consumers are carrying heavy debt loads and facing skimpy wage increases, while many are living in the shadow of corporate downsizing.

37.   Construction shares rallied for a second day on optimism that an interest-rate cut, part of the government package, will help ease their heavy debt burden.

38.   Consumers are carrying heavy debt loads and facing skimpy wage increases, while many fear they will lose their jobs.

39.   Del Monte, the venerable canned fruit company that has slogged through heavy debt and a series of owners, is being sold again.

40.   DELMONTE -- Del Monte, the venerable canned fruit company that has slogged through heavy debt and a series of owners, is being sold again.