11.   J.B. Sutton Group LLC of Great Neck, New York, will underwrite the offering.

12.   Lehman Brothers and Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Inc. will underwrite the offering.

13.   Lehman, which has had a strong franchise in underwriting stock offerings, did very little underwriting in the quarter.

14.   Montgomery Securities and Janney Montgomery Scott Inc. underwrote the offering and shares trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol NCOG.

15.   Of the nine stocks Noto follows, seven had stock offerings underwritten by Goldman Sachs.

16.   Over the years, the United Services funds had invested in several start-up mining companies whose stock offerings were underwritten by Merit.

17.   Operadora de Bolsa Serfin SA, the brokerage unit of Mexico City-based financial group Grupo Financiero Serfin SA, is underwriting the offering.

18.   Prudential Securities Inc. and Janney Montgomery Scott Inc. will underwrite the offering.

19.   Salomon Brothers Inc. and Smith Barney Inc. underwrote the offering, joined by Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., PaineWebber Inc. and Prudential Securities Inc. as co-managers.

20.   Southwest Securities will underwrite the offering.