41.   BRITISH TELECOM IN MCI TALKS MCA said that British Telecommunications was considering buying a stake in its new on-line venture with the News Corp.

42.   Both companies bought equity stakes in the company.

43.   Bulgarian officials and bankers expect Bulgarian Brady bonds to be used more by investors buying stakes in state-owned companies.

44.   Bradley Stillman of the Consumer Federation of America also blasted a rule allowing cable and telephone companies in the same region to buy small stakes in each other.

45.   But buying a stake in AST will help give it the distribution it needs.

46.   But Bronfman has already edged Seagram into the entertainment field by buying the stake in Time Warner over the last two years.

47.   But he said American has no interest in buying equity stakes in either of those carriers.

48.   But that all changed when Hoechst AG, the big German conglomerate, bought a majority stake in Copley, based in Canton, Mass., the following year.

49.   But when an auditor is first promoted to partner, he must pay a portion of his compensation into the firm, essentially buying a stake in the company.

50.   Buying the stake is the first step towards fully acquiring San Francisco-based Southern Pacific.