51.   State and national securities regulators are the cops who are supposed to protect investors.

52.   State regulators maintain that while the standards may be tough, they are designed to protect potential investors.

53.   States are also playing a more of an active role in protecting investors.

54.   State regulators say they have a duty to protect investors.

55.   Still, some are beginning to keep tighter control over the trades as a way of protecting small investors and preventing Orange County and Barings-type fiascos.

56.   That system was designed during the Depression to protect investors and utilities customers from a wide range of corporate abuses that investigators think ultimately took place at Enron.

57.   The Big Board says it is out to protect amateur investors from a system that can too easily rip off the unwary.

58.   The bonds protect investors by paying guaranteed interest above the rate of inflation.

59.   The bonds protect investors from inflation by paying them more to reflect increases in the consumer price index.

60.   The certificates do not protect an investor from fraudulent share registration.