The United States, the largest customer, takes about 45 percent of the exports; Germany is the second-largest buyer.

Texas is the second-largest buyer in that market, after California.

Freddie Mac is the nation's second-largest buyer of home mortgages after its corporate sibling, Fannie Mae.

The board at Freddie Mac, the nation's second-largest buyer of home mortgages, has more than stood by Mr. Parseghian.

Trade between the two nations surpasses one billion dollars and Iranians are the second-largest buyers of Turkmen commodities, mainly natural gas.

The same institution was the fourth-largest seller of stocks and the second-largest buyer.

In 1999, prosecutors said, the pharmacy bought 1,268,500 tablets of the drug, six times greater than the purchase by the second-largest buyer.

Russian officials say India is now the second-largest buyer of Russian arms.

The company, the nation's second-largest buyer of home mortgages, said in June that it would restate its financial results for last year and other periods.

Created by the federal government in 1970, Freddie Mac is the second-largest buyer of home mortgages after Fannie Mae.