91.   Some foreign investors fear that competitive bidding for lucrative government contracts has fallen sway to heavy-handed Manila politics.

92.   Some investors fear an increased supply of government bonds could undermine the price of bonds.

93.   Some investors fear more devaluations in Asian currencies could spread to Latin America.

94.   Some investors fear that the financial crisis may spread to mainland Chinese companies that are publicly listed on the Hong Kong market.

95.   Some investors had feared that the investigation of such practices would cause the IRS to withdraw the tax-exempt status of some bonds.

96.   Some of them had previously called for its renegotiation, causing investors to fear that the crisis would spiral out of control.

97.   Such doubts have dragged down Starwood shares, although many lodging stocks have also slumped as investors have feared that hotel companies might be overbuilding.

98.   That kind of movement indicates that investors fear higher interest rates, or at least that they deem such rates to be a bigger threat than recession.

99.   The agreement is for less than many Archer Daniels investors had feared, since price-fixing cases leave companies vulnerable to tripled damages.

100.   That would ease inflationary pressures than many investors had feared.