31.   The investment allegedly was made by a Blum investment partnership called RB Capital Partners.

32.   The latter category includes IPO purchases by senior officers of hedge funds, investment partnerships, investment corporations and investment clubs for their own trading accounts.

33.   The Securities and Exchange Commission is digging into business deals between Enron and investment partnerships formerly run by its ousted chief financial officer.

34.   The project is backed by an investment partnership that includes prominent local corporations such as Bank One and Tandy Corp.

35.   The SEC is investigating deals Enron made with investment partnerships involving Andrew Fastow, the chief financial officer who was ousted last month.

36.   The stocks, Treasury bills and options in her account would be traded within the structure of an investment partnership managed by IMS.

37.   The Rickel and Channel home-remodeling retail chains will be acquired and combined by an investment partnership.

38.   The technique is built around differences in the ways that investment partnerships account for the values of their assets and liabilities.

39.   The wisdom on Wall Street in recent months has been that the private investment partnerships known as hedge funds have lost their luster.

40.   They are private investment partnerships for the rich that can use leveraged, or borrowed, money to speculate on stocks, bonds and currencies.