1.  As a boy, Burns remembers going to the five-and-dime, where you could buy tiny, colorful lead soldiers individually from glass decanters on the counter.

2.  Dennis Moran, an analyst at A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc., initiated coverage of Youth Services on March 19 with a "buy" recommendation.

3.  Dennis said British Airways and United Airlines both told Boeing that they wanted to buy new 550-seat jets but weren't prepared to make the financial commitment.

4.  CUC's bread-and-butter is a series of databases that help almost 40 million customers buy products from cars to plane tickets to dinner, mainly over the telephone.

5.  Deregulation of electric companies in California in recent years forced many private utilities to sell generation facilities and to buy power on the spot market instead.

6.  DeRobbio and Schwarz approached Gehl, sending a letter seeking to buy the company; they had planned to even offer Gehl a chance to continue running it.

7.  Denver's Chamber of Commerce has a program to help its employees buy in the city.

8.  Designer Richard Tyler said his customers are evenly divided for evening: Half buy tuxedos, half buy evening dresses.

9.  Department store sales in Tokyo rose 21.7 percent in March as consumers rushed to buy big-ticket items before the consumption tax increased, the Japan Department Store Association said.

10.  Depending on how 25 percent is determined, Leach said, a bank could buy a variety of commercial enterprises.