1.   Investors are hooked on drug stocks.

2.   It has given the cash-strapped team leverage to raise ticket prices and hook new investors.

3.   Despite the mushrooming of securities fraud over the Internet, plenty of scams still use the older technique of making unsolicited calls to hook investors, they said Friday.

4.   He showed an impressive biography to hook investors, claiming to have a foolproof system for making money off safe government securities.