1.   But the drop did little to comfort investors, since the revised number was still fairly strong.

2.   In bringing back highly regarded former chiefs, companies want to comfort investors.

3.   Investors also were comforted by a second Labor Department report that said the economy produced a relatively small number of nonfarm jobs in May.

4.   Recent economic reports, signaling slowing growth, have comforted investors and triggered a rally on bonds, particularly in maturities most sensitive to prospects for rate increases.

5.   Since then, signs of slowing economic growth have comforted investors -- and policymakers at the Fed, who left rates unchanged at their last meeting.

6.   That did little to comfort investors.

7.   The change did little to comfort investors.

8.   The dividend also comforts investors when the market gets crazy, meaning the price of the stock usually will not vary as much as other stocks.

9.   The management of E-Net does have experience, although it is not necessarily of the sort that would comfort prospective investors.

10.   The new jobs data may have comforted investors by allaying fears of an imminent interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.