71.   Over all, low expenses were common among the best performers.

72.   Over five years, the best performer in the segment was from another small firm.

73.   Pharmaceutical shares Synthelabo SA, Sanofi SA and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer were the best performers amid talk of mergers and acquisitions in the industry.

74.   Regional department stores are expected to be the best performers of the department stores, because they have less competition in their markets.

75.   Russian and Brazilian markets were the best performers.

76.   Seattle-based Boeing has been among the best performers this year, its shares buoyed by surging orders for aircraft from airlines around the world.

77.   Semiconductor, computer and retail stocks were among the best performers.

78.   Since many of the smaller emerging markets have been among the best performers in recent years investors who equally weight investments would have benefited from those gains.

79.   Since the yen started gaining against the dollar last month, pulp and paper companies have been the best performers on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

80.   State enterprises like the oil company Petrobras, the electricity utility Electrobras and the phone company Telebras were the best performers last year.