1.   Major oil company stocks also leaped upward.

2.   On the day the Bell Atlantic merger with Tele-Communications was announced, both stocks leaped.

3.   So does the surge in new issues, with some new stock always leaping to attention.

4.   The best-performing stocks leaped not hundreds, but thousands of percentage points.

5.   The stock would leap, but nothing more would be heard of the raid.