Highly cyclical, the sector has often required investors to have strong stomachs.

"It was requiring investors to make further spends in hope of obtaining their money."

The proposal, which offers wage concessions in return for equity, would require other employees and investors to make sacrifices.

None saw a prospectus; none knew that Federal regulations require investors in private partnerships like Colonial's to be worth $1 million or have incomes over $200,000.

The provision, which the Administration strongly opposes, would require foreign investors to register and provide detailed information about their investments in this country.

Brokerage firms routinely require investors opening securities accounts to agree to arbitration in the event of disputes.

In fact, he proposes to require investors selling stocks to compute their profits based on the average cost of the shares they hold in a specific company.

Companies or public agencies requiring build-to-suit commercial or industrial property, prospective investors, and individual residential or commercial tenants.

Instead the agency is preparing to write a new regulation that would require investors in such funds to have greater personal wealth.

Many dividend plans are restrictive, requiring investors to reinvest dividends rather than to pocket them and allowing purchases just monthly or quarterly.