91.   Initial offerings that sprouted in Massachusetts are a varied lot too.

92.   Initial public stock offerings of CMGI portfolio companies, including portal offering AltaVista Co., were pulled when the market came tumbling down.

93.   Initial offerings enjoyed success.

94.   Initial offerings from Silicon Valley to the City of London are awarded this way.

95.   Initial offerings include Larry McMurtry writing about Crazy Horse, Jane Smiley on Charles Dickens and Mary Gordon writing about Joan of Arc.

96.   Initial stock offerings got the royal treatment.

97.   Investors are snapping up initial offerings of real estate companies, known as real estate investment trusts.

98.   Institutional and wealthy investors can influence the brokerage firms that take initial offerings to market, explained John Markese of the American Association of Individual Investors.

99.   Is Forbes Inc., publisher of the glossy business magazine, planning to sell its Internet jewels to the public through an initial offering?

100.   Industry executives say that Nextwave has already hired Bear, Stearns as its lead investment banker, and hopes to raise additional cash through an initial public stock offering.