1.   Investors are betting that the combination will hurt corporate balance sheets, and that sent stocks tumbling today.

2.   Not enough, say, to send Merck tumbling by itself.

3.   In Hong Kong, shares ended slightly lower as government intervention shifted to the futures market, prompting a frantic scramble that sent shares tumbling.

4.   In the third set, Sampras broke in the third game with a forehand pass that sent Philippoussis tumbling to the turf.

5.   Yeltsin said he expects to discuss political, financial, trade and social issues on his first foreign trip since a financial crisis sent stock markets tumbling.