41.   But prospects for financing the project to completion seem bleak.

42.   But when it comes to financing the project, Pac Bell would rather be a renter.

43.   By contrast, municipal bankers keep stressing that they are the ones schooled in financing public projects and in understanding the politics.

44.   Chadwick works with the U.S. Export-Import Bank to obtain loan guarantees and with other agencies to finance the projects, Nocera said.

45.   China has agreed to pay for the gas with cash the two sides have yet to discuss how to finance the project.

46.   City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone said he was proud that the Council had helped finance the project.

47.   Competition is fierce in municipal finance -- the business of issuing bonds for cities and towns to finance civic projects -- and so is the backbiting.

48.   Construction was privatized, so that the government still awarded the contracts but the projects were financed by banks and foreign bonds.

49.   Collins said Bank of America was interested in financing the project.

50.   Cross said that he and Johnson had not discussed financing the project with city officials.