31.   ImmuLogic, whose stock has plummeted since that announcement, is looking for a new pharmaceutical partner.

32.   If Oprah Winfrey decided not to renew her contract, for example, King World stock could plummet overnight, despite its large cash backing.

33.   If something goes wrong with a company today, the stock can plummet almost overnight.

34.   In each case, some executives exercised their options to sell shares just before the stocks plummeted in value, leaving many other shareholders with staggering losses.

35.   In LONDON, stocks tumbled after U.S. stocks plummeted yesterday and failed to hold gains in early New York trading today.

36.   In other cases, top management is worried about being sued if computer malfunctions disrupt business enough to make the stock plummet or hurt a customer.

37.   In the wake of liquidity shocks, some stocks plummet while others barely budge.

38.   In the seventh inning the Yankees applied frontier Justice to the Mariners, and you could hear airline stocks plummeting due to the loss of transcontinental business.

39.   Investor concern that the expansion may falter caused stocks to plummet last month.

40.   It sure seemed that way last month, when once-hot Internet stocks plummeted and teary-eyed executives begged for more cash.