111.   The stock market ended its strongest week in eight months Friday as investors appeared to believe that maybe the future will be better after all.

112.   This year, it helps that investors appear to be comfortable with both President Clinton and Bob Dole, the presumptive GOP nominee.

113.   Though investors appear to be winners in this trend, employees will be losers in the cost-cutting prescription.

114.   Though investors appear to favor a victory by the center-left, differences between the sides on stated policy appear much smaller than perceptions in financial markets.

115.   Today, though, some investors appear to have made their choice.

116.   Traders said that their outlook on the market has improved as some investors appear to be buying again.

117.   Tuesday, they joined forces in the race to capture Internet users and the dollars they are increasingly spending on line, and investors appeared to endorse the strategy.

118.   To some degree, investors appear to have sated, at least temporarily, their voracious appetite for equity funds.

119.   Wall Street investors appear to share that optimism.

120.   While investors appear to have regained confidence in technology stocks, many have come back with higher standards than they had before the plunge.