21.   Buying stock is different from buying other things.

22.   Buying back stock is so popular that some companies borrow to do it.

23.   Buying stock has become a patriotic gesture.

24.   Driehaus pioneered momentum investing, which involves buying stocks that are moving up rapidly.

25.   Diversification and investing for the long term still made more sense than buying stock in companies hardly deserving of early-stage venture capital.

26.   Even investors agree that buying stock in desert dirts requires a leap of faith.

27.   Family members might also lean towards buying stocks or shares in a stock mutual fund, perhaps in a Roth IRA.

28.   For example, Ms. Tarmy said, Ms. Powers recently proposed buying stock in Zonagen, a small Texas company that makes a drug to treat male impotence.

29.   For certain management-level employees, buying stock was mandatory, they say.

30.   Forget funeral parlors, fans in a few years could be buying stock in a planned global chain of Elvis Presley theme restaurants.