31.   Customers must meet these requests, known as margin calls, with fresh money or with cash raised by selling stocks.

32.   Developers and investors were forced to raise cash by selling stock to the public to repay billions of debt coming due.

33.   David Shulman, chief equity strategist at Salomon Brothers Inc. and a pessimist about the market for years, said he has been selling stocks since August.

34.   During the weekend meeting, partners decided against selling stock after reviewing their options -- going public, staying private and other undisclosed choices.

35.   Executives at companies in the process of selling public stock usually are not allowed to comment on their business and Nextera officials did not return calls.

36.   Executives from Tandem were barred from selling stock since the announcement of a purchase agreement in June, a spokeswoman said.

37.   Fay, a political science professor, is trying to finance his campaign by selling stock in it.

38.   Fonix said it expects to raise money by selling stock or debt securities.

39.   For companies, they count as debt under tax rules, which provides a tax advantage compared to selling stock.

40.   For years ITT was able to manage reported profits by selling stocks that had been owned by Hartford Insurance before ITT acquired it.