61.   All of those firms and their online competitors have been scrapping for bigger pieces of stock offerings, especially initial offerings.

62.   Buoyed by this success, several of the magazines, including Red Herring, The Standard and Upside, indicate they may go public with a stock offering.

63.   Business communications software makers, among the most highly publicized and eagerly sought stock offerings of the past year, came together in two billion-dollar deals Monday.

64.   But Gosman plans to buy many more medical businesses after the stock offering, the date of which has not been set.

65.   But it is easy to see why spy shops may be looking at stock offerings.

66.   But investors who get in long before a public stock offering have the most to gain.

67.   But Nespola is proud that the stock offering has spread the wealth throughout the company.

68.   But Netscape, which recently parlayed its popularity on the Internet into a hot stock offering, downplayed the incident.

69.   But Nextwave has already delayed one stock offering for several months.

70.   But some industry executives said Nynex was chary because other recent stock offerings in Britain had attracted a tepid response from investors.