31.   Because they are required to pay out most all of their income, REITs typically use cash from frequent stock sales to pay down debt and buy more properties.

32.   Better to use budget surpluses to make modest investments in the future, through improved schools, for instance, and to pay down the national debt.

33.   Both candidates and their parties have agreed that the Social Security surplus should go only to shoring up the retirement system or paying down the national debt.

34.   A similar amount will go to help pay down household debt or buy groceries or other goods.

35.   A sinking fund was a sum of money that the government undertook to set aside each year to pay down its debt.

36.   After so many poorer years, farmers are apt to have used the money to pay down debt or make repairs to equipment and buildings, he said.

37.   Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is urging Congress and the White House to pay down the national debt.

38.   Albemarle said proceeds from the sale would go towards paying down debt, possible acquisitions and a repurchase of shares.

39.   Also, while it has been paying down debt, its stock has not reacted particularly well.