31.   At RJR, he reined in a free-wheeling corporate culture and managed to pay down a stupendous debt load without selling many assets.

32.   At some point, he added, it made sense to sell assets, for example, to help maintain core services.

33.   At that time, job cuts and plans to sell selected assets seemed to placate credit-rating agencies.

34.   Ault said it may sell assets such as its less profitable Quebec fluid milk business which could boost its share price and make a takeover more expensive.

35.   Baird is selling the assets of three of its four mutual funds to Houston-based AIM Management Group for an undisclosed amount, the company said today.

36.   Barring a takeover offer, which Wall Street views as unlikely, the shareholders want Aetna to rapidly sell more assets and use the proceeds to buy back shares.

37.   Because Korea runs a fiscal surplus, it has the leeway to sell more government debt to buy bad loans and start selling the assets.

38.   Because Seagram is selling the assets jointly, that right does not apply, Seagram says.

39.   Banks could be big losers if assets get sold cheaply or former borrowers go bankrupt.

40.   Berezovsky is the most prominent of the wealthy Russians known as the oligarchs, who made their money buying and selling the assets of the dissolved Soviet Union.