21.   Some inventive stock promoters find a way to make money on the falling price, too, by selling short.

22.   Stock promoters are sometimes listed as consultants.

23.   Stock promoters no longer needed to rent offices with banks of phones to profit by manipulating shares.

24.   The agency said stock promoters and officials of small brokerage firms bribed brokers to get them to sell certain issues to unsuspecting investors.

25.   The employees, meanwhile, pocketed bribes from other stock promoters.

26.   The following is a partial list of stocks that were touted by a ring of stock promoters indicted on fraud charges last week, according to court records.

27.   The following is a partial list of stocks that were touted by a ring of stock promoters charged with fraud last week, according to court records.

28.   The first indictments were returned Tuesday against stock promoters who were arrested last month in an FBI sting intended to catch people who were willing to bribe stockbrokers.

29.   The magazine acted after Business Week reported that Dorfman was being investigated by the Justice Department for his relationship with a stock promoter.

30.   The most attractive pitch any stock promoter can give a prospective investor is that a company dominates its business.