1.   But they were not so dire as to scare investors into dumping government bonds.

2.   And changes in those rules are being resisted by the Big Board, which fears any change would scare small investors.

3.   Action, on the other hand, might scare jittery investors and bring on a crash.

4.   But that clearly did not scare investors.

5.   Economists said such measures would scare investors and prompt a rise in interest rates.

6.   Even some momentum investors are getting scared.

7.   If developments scare investors even more, that will just add to the downward pressure on markets from Thailand to Indonesia, Russia to Hungary and Mexico to Brazil.

8.   It would probably take a recession to scare mutual fund investors.

9.   One answer lies in the strength of the dollar, which has scared some investors regarding big international companies.