When the stock market reopened the next day after the news was announced, investors bailed out of the Viatech shares in droves.

Frightened investors bail out of their mutual funds, forcing managers to come up with cash by selling their holdings into a declining market.

In the last 30 minutes of trading, investors bailed out of stocks.

By most accounts, though, foreign investors have generally not bailed out of the American stock market, although overseas funds did sell shares, especially on Monday.

The dollar's comeback yesterday came on a day when big investors apparently bailed out of the precious metals markets.

And some huge institutional investors, such as the Boeing Company's pension fund, are largely bailing out of stocks.

As the currency has declined, many foreign investors have bailed out of fixed-income, dollar-denominated securities, pushing up interest rates in the process.

This is the fear that a decline in the stock market will cause investors to bail out of equity mutual funds.

(He quickly corrected himself after questions from two reporters, acknowledging that private investors, not the taxpayers, had bailed out the fund.)

But investors have been bailing out of Coke in a big way.