1.   And despite lackluster stock performance, the RBOCs have not been dumped by investors like their long-distance rivals or the once-highflying alternative carriers.

2.   Analysts say investors may be dumping Intel stock based on the prospect of a slowdown in the PC market.

3.   As investors dumped stocks recently and sent Wall Street reeling, one source of money kept flowing into the market.

4.   At times like those, investors dump their laissez-faire attitudes, along with their stocks, and turn to government for help.

5.   A less patient investor would have dumped Salomon long ago.

6.   A lot of the recent volatility is because uninformed investors sell their shares after seeing other investors dump their shares, he said.

7.   A strong report could hurt the currency by depressing stocks and bonds, raising worries that global investors will dump their dollar holdings.

8.   After learning Charles Dana Rice, also an El Paso senior vice president, had killed himself, investors dumped shares in the Houston-based natural gas company.

9.   But small technology companies are hardly the only ones being dumped by investors.

10.   Clearly scared investors are sometimes dumping the baby with the bath water on their way to the exits.