1.   Analysts blame a lack of investor enthusiasm for consolidation companies.

2.   Analysts said the bad news from Motorola and Yahoo! dampened investor enthusiasm but did not turn it off as has been the custom recently.

3.   Analysts seem to agree that if product failures ignited the slump, successes will be needed to reignite investor enthusiasm.

4.   Almost always, promoters build investor enthusiasm by pitching their ideas at a forum.

5.   Both WorldCom and AOL are risky investments, however, and made all the riskier by investor enthusiasm.

6.   But in the end neither event dampened investor enthusiasm.

7.   But some analysts saw the drop as a sign of flagging investor enthusiasm following a bout of stock market volatility.

8.   But then, there was not that much news to explain the increase, other than growing investor enthusiasm for the potential profits from new drugs.

9.   Certainly last week, there seemed to be no limit to investor enthusiasm for the future of Amazon.com.

10.   Despite investor enthusiasm, some analysts said such a merger was implausible.