11.   Inevitably, some of the companies that default will be ones that need never have borrowed money, given how eager investors were to buy their shares.

12.   Investors eager to follow the advice of Fosback should select stocks cautiously -- sticking to his overall recommendation that less than half of investable assets be allocated to stocks.

13.   Investors eager to own part of the next takeover target earlier boosted the price of Centura Banks Inc. and Synovus Financial Corp., which also operate in the region.

14.   Investors eager that the prospect of rate cuts by the German Bundesbank would ignite economic activity boosted those markets in the first quarter.

15.   Island and numerous other computerized trading systems have attracted thousands of new investors eager to flex their newly empowered status in the financial markets.

16.   Now, with so many markets bubbling and so many Western investors eager to jump in, the agency is something of a victim of its own success.

17.   Piaggio and ERG are two of the most avidly watched private companies by investors eager to buy their shares.

18.   Sign me up -- the sensible reaction of any eager investor in such an atmosphere of unbridled money-making.

19.   Still, money managers are plowing ahead to offer the flavor of the month to eager investors.

20.   The mere mention of Canada, though, can stop some otherwise eager American investors cold.