1.   Burrell and other Garmin officials spent the last three weeks touting their company to institutional investors around the world.

2.   For years, brokers and investment bankers touted telecommunications companies as the jewels of emerging markets.

3.   Next week, Porfeli heads to California to tout the company to West Coast investors.

4.   President Clinton has been touting companies that treat their employees well as part of a White House effort to address feelings of disenfranchisement among the middle class.

5.   So may the investment bankers who helped set up the elaborate financing schemes and even the brokerage houses that touted the company to investors.

6.   The newsletter touted the company as its stock pick of the year.

7.   The slowdown worried analysts who had touted the company for its predictable rapid growth.