81.   Other investments are in smaller, potentially faster-growing industries such as educational software.

82.   Plus many have been exposed to educational software on their home computers that gives them an extra head start on learning.

83.   Puget Sound stocks fell amid concerns that Edmark Corp. and other educational software companies may see lower earnings in coming months.

84.   Shares of educational software companies, such as Minnesota Educational Computing Co., Sierra On-Line Inc. and Spectrum Holobyte Inc., also gained thanks to a takeover.

85.   Shares of Edmark, a publisher of educational software, also rose amid optimism that most falling prices of personal computers will lead to higher software sales.

86.   Softkey, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based consumer and educational software company, amended a legal complaint against Learning Co. and Broderbund.

87.   Sometimes those companies stay in the fold, like the Lucas Learning division that formed last year and is now releasing its first educational software products.

88.   Sound Source develops interactive games and educational software.

89.   Sound Source, ranked among the six or seven largest educational software publishers in the country, has struggled in recent years.

90.   Softkey took the name Learning Co. and, through the aggressive use of debt financing and stock swaps, built a portfolio of leading consumer and educational software titles.