throw on the market

A paradox of the industry is that as herds are reduced, supplies grow because slaughtered breeding stock is thrown on the market.

Nor is it an odds-and-ends exhibition of the kind that is sometimes thrown on the market by a grasping or beleaguered estate.

The government is also pushing the banks to move faster to write off their mountains of bad loans, which will lead to even more foreclosed property thrown on the market.

DESPITE general upheaval after Sept. 11 and the huge amount of sublease space thrown on the market, investing has "stayed true to course," Mr. Mikula said.

By selling a large part of the airline to Northwest, the creditors would avoid a fire sale of valuable assets that could result if a large number of planes and other property are thrown on the market at once.

Insurance companies already coping with the 1.6 million drivers being thrown on the market by the demise of the New Jersey's high-risk pool say they would have difficulty absorbing the drivers now covered by Allstate when it leaves the state.

Then, the attack came, and there was a "thin wave" of subleasing to displaced New York City firms in New Jersey, as Mr. Flynn put it, and a huge wave of sublease space thrown on the market.