11.   To be sure, investors have been picking on Redhook and the others for some time.

12.   Though professional investors are gingerly picking through the carnage, they are not encouraging individuals to wade in with force.

13.   Investors picked property issues on optimism that interest rates will continue to slide.

14.   South Korean businesses scheduled to head for the north agreed with the government reaction but expressed disappointment and concern that other foreign investors might pick the first plums.