1.  American International Group Inc. in December bought most of the Thai consumer finance company Bangkok Investment Public Co. Ltd.

2.  Ashland is primarily engaged in refining and marketing, not exploration and production, and buys most of its crude oil on the open market.

3.  Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed said its nationwide consolidation came as a result of buying most of Loral Corp. earlier in the year.

4.  -- United plans to buy most of US Airways.

5.  Active members, who charged everything on a Citibank credit card and bought most of their gasoline at Exxon, for example, would save even more.

6.  But as an independent contractor, she must pay her assistant and her taxes and buy most of her equipment.

7.  Delta bought most of its fuel under purchasing contracts negotiated while prices were low.

8.  Enron buys most of its power on the wholesale market.

9.  Foreign manufacturers, who buy most of the television advertising, are deeply interested in what Russian consumers want.

10.  Freer bought most of his work at a time when China, destitute and chaotic, was selling off its cultural patrimony willy-nilly and cheaply.