11.   And the frothy market for initial public stock offerings proves that many love to speculate.

12.   And while Sabre generates lots of cash, unlike many new issues it cannot count on the money raised in the initial offering to help it fight these battles.

13.   Anderson, however, declined to comment today on the size of the initial offering.

14.   And this risk is linked directly to the fall in the price of Deutsche Telekom shares since their initial offering.

15.   As part of its new approach to the Internet, Microsoft said it planned to sell part of Expedia in an initial public stock offering.

16.   As part of his turnaround of the company, he is expected to sell a stake to the public in an initial offering next year.

17.   As retail initial offerings go, Guess is not exactly a model.

18.   As those small companies mature, the business-to-business theme will become even more pronounced in the flow of initial public stock offerings.

19.   As with all hot initial stock offerings, Yahoo was in fact not readily available to most investors at the offering price.

20.   At the time, it was the most successful initial stock offering ever, the first big strike of the gold rush.