1.   Even if you look back over the past three years, small-cap stocks generally have done better than big caps, Brouwer observes.

2.   Small companies are less cyclical than big caps, and receive fewer earnings from exports, which can fall steeply with the economy.

3.   Somewhere along the way I found that I had company, a little man in a big cap that fit nicely on his ears.

4.   Total-market funds would provide some protection in the event the big caps fall, but not as much as you might think.

5.   But earnings concerns continued to weigh down stocks, particularly blue chips, as investors sold off shares of big cap companies they considered risky.

6.   But earnings concerns continued to weigh down stocks as investors sold off shares of big cap companies they considered less likely to turn profits.

7.   Searcy, safety Carnell Lake, and linebackers Hardy Nickerson and Lonnie Marts are injured veterans with big cap numbers, all of whom could be gone.

8.   Technology stocks, small caps, once again faring better than the big cap stocks that trade here.

9.   However, the wider impact of profit-taking has been contained by continued support for selected big caps.

10.   Indonesian shares closed fractionally lower Monday on profit-taking in big caps after the index rose six percent last week on foreign program buying, dealers said.