1.   Although he exerted strong influence over Turner Broadcasting as a major shareholder, Malone said Friday that he was content to be a passive investor in the combined company.

2.   Any increase is based on assurances by Berkshire that it will be a passive investor in American Express.

3.   As passive investors there was little they could do.

4.   A News Corp. executive said emphatically that Malone would be a passive investor.

5.   A spokesman for the Pritzkers insisted that family members were largely passive investors and that Dworman managed and operated the savings and loan.

6.   According to Llewellyn, Powell was a passive investor who received nothing more than quarterly reports and partnership checks.

7.   Burbank, Calif.-based Disney was named as a possible passive investor in the CBS-QVC deal.

8.   But over the long term, they are expected to make it more difficult for corporations to remain passive investors.

9.   But Stashefsky does have the misfortune of being an unwitting casualty of the pitfalls of global investing, which can occur even for the most passive investors.

10.   Despite the large positions, Maguire remains a passive investor in these companies.