1.   Fish and vegetable stocks cook quickly, chicken stocks fall in the middle, and beef and veal stocks can cook almost all day for the richest results.

2.   They curtail underwriting as stocks fall and companies, faced with higher borrowing costs and lower share prices, put off raising money through stock and bond sales.

3.   U.S. stocks are expected to decline as computer-related stocks fall on concern that corporate profits will be disappointing.

4.   US Robotics, which makes modems, had long been a target of shortsellers, who bet stocks fall.

5.   Wednesday, as media company shares gained but most Internet companies saw their stocks fall further, the shares of Time Warner and America Online rebounded.

6.   When these stocks fall, the throngs that bought them simply because they were going up have no idea what they are worth.

7.   The Nasdaq, which recorded one of its quietest sessions of the year, saw seven stocks fall for every four that rose.

8.   All major companies present on the Tel Aviv bourse saw their stocks fall Thursday, including the partially privatized telephone monopoly Bezek which was off seven percent.