41.   If the Soviet regime required international tension, its democratic successor needs peaceful relations with other countries so that it can cut military spending and attract foreign capital.

42.   If such yields attract foreign capital, Mexican rates could fall in coming weeks.

43.   In an effort to attract private capital for electricity and economic growth, governments negotiated long-term deals, often in secret, with private companies for new power plants.

44.   In the long-run, the strong U.S. economy compared to Asian economies should attract more capital, boosting Treasuries, Miyamura added.

45.   Indeed, high rates are key to attracting overseas capital and defending the currency.

46.   It is longer term and can be used to help attract capital from usual commercial sources, thus getting the borrowers into the private markets more quickly.

47.   Like many unprofitable dot-coms, Furniture.com had struggled to attract capital from wary investors.

48.   Last week, Brazil raised its benchmark prime interest rate in an effort to attract capital and stave off a run on the currency.

49.   Massachusetts companies have done well in attracting start-up capital and in offering stock to the public.

50.   Nations depend on stable currencies for facilitating imports and exports, for financing trade and budget deficits and for attracting investment capital.