The fund's ability to rack up such spectacular gains may be traced in part to the fact that it has remained so small.

While some stocks managed spectacular gains, the overall market was basically stagnant.

Secretary Baker is not going for quick, spectacular gains.

Bond prices lost the momentum of the previous week's spectacular gains.

"We thought that, with the spectacular gains already registered by the market this year, it simply was time to take some profits."

The opposition made spectacular gains in the election, which caught all observers, and the parties, off guard.

In the opening phase, the campaign met with spectacular gains, as the surprised Soviet troops were not able to offer coordinated resistance.

Technology stocks, which have shown spectacular gains for the year, were an obvious candidate.

Last year, those funds were modestly in the red, losses that have now been wiped out by the first quarter's spectacular gains.

The Dow accumulated most of 1997's spectacular overall gain during the first half of the year.