1.   A Yamaichi Securities Co. executive was stabbed to death last night, and police are investigating whether the killing is linked to a payoff scandal involving a racketeer.

2.   All four brokerages are implicated in a payoff scandal to at least one corporate racketeer.

3.   Brokerages fell amid concern about a widening payoff scandal engulfing the Big Four and its impact on revenue.

4.   Brokerages fell on concern about the impact on revenue of a widening payoff scandal that has engulfed the Big Four securities houses.

5.   Brokerages fell on concern about a widening payoff scandal engulfing the Big Four securities houses and its impact on revenue.

6.   But now his friends are testifying against him in a lingering casino payoff scandal.

7.   Daiwa Securities Co. President Motoo Esaka will step down following a widening gangster payoff scandal that has forced mass resignations at three other major financial companies this year.

8.   Daiwa and Nikko are two of five major financial companies implicated in the payoff scandal.

9.   During the January-March quarter, before the recent payoff scandal erupted, foreign brokers had managed four Eurodollar bond sales by Japanese companies.

10.   Earl, a senior at Kansas, has gone through a troubled college career that began with a payoff scandal at LSU.