1.   Analysts caution that it may be difficult for Seagram to sell its stake because the shares will be diluted by the Turner merger.

2.   Executives at Bayerische Vereinsbank said the virtue of the complicated structure was that it would protect shareholders from seeing their shares diluted.

3.   If that occurred, Yemenidjian said, Tracinda might choose to sue Chrysler to invalidate that mechanism, which dilutes the shares held by the hostile party.

4.   Is your share diluted if new partners are added?

5.   Last month, dissident shareholders led by Western investors put pressure on a subsidiary of Yukos Oil to drop a stock offering they feared would dilute their shares.

6.   Some caution that it may be difficult for Seagram to sell its stake because the shares will be diluted by the Turner merger.

7.   That creates uncertainty for minority shareholders on how much their shares will be diluted in the future, Fernandes said.

8.   The most recent surprise came when construction company Paul Y.-ITC Construction Holdings Ltd. decided to dilute its shares.

9.   The tracking stock, he said, might be used for making acquisitions of other media businesses without diluting the shares representing the Internet-access cable business.

10.   When its controlling Russian bank planned to dilute the shares, Western investors rebelled.