31.   To be sure, investors should not count their gains before they arrive.

32.   Unfortunately, investors cannot always count on management to uncover problems in a potential purchase, as the Mattel case shows.

33.   Until recently, investors could almost count on pleasant surprises from companies reporting earnings that consistently exceeded expectations.

34.   Welch contends that GE can wrest double-digit earnings benefits in the first full year of the merger, and investors have been counting on that.

35.   Alan Ackerman, executive vice president at Fahnestock and Co., said stock investors are counting on the government reaching a truce soon.

36.   Alan Ackerman, executive vice president at Fahnestock and Co. financial firm, said stock investors are counting on the government reaching a truce soon.

37.   Many investors had counted on continued sluggish economic indicators to prod the Federal Reserve to lower short-term interest rates soon.

38.   Many investors had counted on continued sluggish economic indicators to prod the Federal Reserve to lower short-term interest rates.

39.   Many investors had not counted on an easing, but they were still disappointed when it did not come.

40.   Investors have been counting on an early election to lift the local bourse out of the present lethargy.