1.   Banks and the government are already under pressure to pay back investors who lost thousands in the failed pyramid schemes.

2.   Before the gun-toting thugs took to the streets, tens of thousands attended rallies protesting the failed pyramid schemes.

3.   After a failed pyramid effect became the big story from the Atlanta production, the company fired most of the creative team.

4.   A congressional committee is also examining whether he was connected to a failed pyramid investment scheme in which his wife and daughter lost large amounts of money.

5.   Albanian leaders hope the troops also will help restore order to the country, where protests over failed pyramid schemes in January quickly grew into open rebellion.

6.   But the incident illustrated the deep divisions in anarchic Albania a month after failed pyramid schemes sparked an armed insurgency.

7.   Citizens looted armories throughout Albania when anti-government protests inspired by failed pyramid schemes spiraled into rebellion last month.

8.   Contributing to the escalating tensions is trouble in neighboring Albania, where failed pyramid financial schemes have prompted days of protests and rioting across the impoverished nation.

9.   Forlani said the multinational force would not actively try to prevent crime that has spread since anti-government protests sparked by failed pyramid schemes exploded into armed rebellion.

10.   President Sali Berisha traveled to this northern industrial town Saturday in another bid to shore up support amid mounting pressure for the government to resign over failed pyramid schemes.