1.   American museums with large acquisitions budgets are active buyers both here and abroad.

2.   And members of that audience are active record buyers.

3.   All these reasons have turned Strong, whose Wisconsin company manages more than two dozen no-load mutual funds, into an active buyer of shares in Union Pacific Resources.

4.   Commodity funds had been active buyers of corn this week, and traders had speculated the buying soon would spread to wheat, grain sources said.

5.   Fidelity funds were active buyers of America Online Inc. shares last month, as shares of the computer network company were at their lowest level in a year.

6.   If the banks are forced to reduce their holdings, or merely to stop being active buyers, the bottom could fall out of the agency bond market.

7.   In recent years, Equity Office, whose chairman is billionaire Zell, has been the most active buyer of office properties.

8.   Lee and Bain Capital have been active buyers this year.

9.   Lennar, in addition to its homebuilding operations, has been an active buyer of real estate in recent years.

10.   Mikhail Filimonov of Hermes Capital Management has been an active buyer of the Alpine Group, though not a single analyst writes about the company.