71.   Expanding the business so rapidly may also be masking trouble in the loan portfolio, because loans usually take a few years to sour.

72.   Falling yields push down corporate borrowing costs and make it easier for companies to expand their businesses.

73.   Even in the face of stiff competition, Blair maintains British companies are working to expand their business in Russia.

74.   First he looks for companies with good, sustainable earnings that generate excess cash even after investing sufficiently to expand their businesses.

75.   First Union Real Estate Investments said it hired investment bank Prudential Securities Inc. to help expand its business of owning and managing parking garages.

76.   First Virginia Banks Inc. agreed to buy seven branches from Signet Banking Corp., in a bid to expand its business in Maryland and Virginia.

77.   Falling yields push down corporate borrowing costs and make it less costly for companies to expand their businesses.

78.   For example, the plan proposes zoning changes that would make it easier for a manufacturer in some industrial zones to expand a business.

79.   Ford and other auto makers have been shedding non-core assets to focus on their primary business of making and selling cars and expanding business overseas.

80.   For Arlington, Virginia-based MCI, the new service is an opportunity to expand its business as an Internet service provider.