61.   Falling bonds and stocks often hurt the dollar because as international investors flee U.S. markets they sell dollars for other currencies.

62.   Falling bonds and stocks weigh on the dollar by prompting concern foreign investors selling U.S. assets will also sell the dollars they receive for them.

63.   Few traders expect the ministry to ask the Bank of Japan to sell dollars anytime soon, especially when the dollar trades at current levels.

64.   Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka and other ministry officials have suggested Japan could move to sell dollars for yen at any time to boost the yen.

65.   Foot-dragging by France yesterday led traders to sell dollars on concern that union would be delayed.

66.   Foot-dragging by France yesterday led traders to sell dollars on the possibility that the union would be delayed.

67.   For example, traders might sell lire for dollars, then sell those dollars for marks.

68.   For example, traders will sell lire for dollars, then sell those dollars for marks.

69.   For example, traders sometimes sell lire for dollars, then sell those dollars for marks.

70.   Foreign investors selling U.S. assets often sell the dollars they receive for them.