1.   Loans have more recently been extended to finance education and other socially oriented projects.

2.   Many of the bad loans were extended to finance real estate purchases before land prices collapsed earlier this decade.

3.   Pataki also said Tuesday that he could support either the Senate or House versions of a bill to extend federal financing for road, bridge and transit projects.

4.   Analysts said the peso and stocks were clearly finding new vigor on announcements by the United States and the international community to extend favorable financing to surmount the crisis.

5.   Analysts said the peso and stocks were finding new vigor on announcements by the United States and the international community to extend favorable financing to surmount the crisis.