1.   Many sank their savings into raising the large ostrichlike birds in the hopes that emu meat would catch on at the dinner table.

2.   Desperate Albanians who sank their savings into a get-rich scheme fought police on Wednesday and besieged the home of the owner who declared her fund had collapsed.

3.   Desperate Albanians who sank their savings into a pyramid scheme fought police Wednesday and besieged the home of the owner who declared her fund had collapsed.

4.   In Albania, popular anger boiled over in January when pyramid schemes in which thousands sank savings collapsed.

5.   In Albania, protests against failed investment schemes in which many Albanians had sunk their savings erupted into armed rebellion against Berisha five months ago.

6.   Most Albanians had sunk savings into the schemes, and many believed Berisha had tolerated or even masterminded them.

7.   Protests against failed investment schemes in which many Albanians had sunk their savings erupted into armed rebellion against Berisha five months ago.

8.   Similar demands in January by huge crowds who sank life savings into dubious schemes only to see them go belly up led to months of unrest and anarchy.

9.   The March rebellion erupted after the collapse of pyramid schemes into which most Albanians had sunk savings and many believed were tolerated if not masterminded by Berisha.

10.   The ventures included a flour mill and irrigation projects, into which Mehmood sank his savings hoping for big profits, the son said.