This year they fell to $319 million in the third quarter, Lipper reported.

The figures were based on average assets during the year of $50.5 billion, according to Lipper.

The average bond fund gained 3.7 percent, according to Lipper.

Last year, it lost 6.85 percent, according to Lipper.

As a result, gold funds show a negative return of 17.86 percent so far this year, according to Lipper.

General municipal debt funds returned 3.9 percent last year, Lipper said.

The average maturity for the 259 funds tracked by Lipper is 52 days.

They were the only two categories followed by Lipper that showed declines.

According to Lipper, the fund research company, some 210 funds have balance as their objective.

Total 12b-1 payments last year alone amounted to $9 billion, according to Lipper.

The average health and biotechnology fund lost 9.51 percent in the quarter, Lipper said.

For the last three years, it ranks 501 out of 511 growth funds tracked by Lipper.

According to Lipper, general domestic equity funds lost 1.54 percent on average in the quarter.

The first three months were tough all around, with the average equity fund losing 3.23 percent, according to Lipper.

Mr. Lipper began to look more seriously for a buyer.

By contrast, the average long-term bond fund lost 4.8 percent, according to Lipper.

That was the highest since the $33.8 billion in April 2000, according to Lipper.

Large-cap funds now have just 40 percent of holdings in technology today, according to Lipper.

The first quarter was a difficult time for investors in almost all sectors analyzed by Lipper.

Now he took hold of my Lipper arms.

Of the nine health funds tracked by Lipper, three were among the 10 best performers in the quarter.

Lipper tracks 573 sector funds and 3,670 general equity portfolios.

But the small growth stock funds did not dominate Lipper's list of best performers as they have in the recent past.

The Lipper organization released its 1987 performance survey yesterday.

Joanna Lipper completed a remake of the movie in 2005 and used the same name.

A few hours ago a Leaper came down to the river to drink.

The leaper jumped across so I saw it against the face of the sun.

He's so much bigger and I'm not the greatest leaper in the world.

There was still no sign of other Leapers on the meadow.

Smith has long arms and is a strong leaper, allowing him to play more like a 7-footer.

Not only is Hill a great leaper, but he jumps quickly.

I had been sure we would lose at least one to the final Leaper assault.

The black Leaper on g4, which had been immobilized, is now free to move again.

We lost fish to leapers, and to those that swam deep.

Which the Vagabond leaper was only too happy to do.

There was no sign of Leapers moving to support their fallen member.

He picked up the big bundle, the one in which Leaper had been most interested.

"I hope you do not include any mention of Leaper in your story.

With no speech, we ate a small portion each of leaper.

Besides, the Leapers were not that effective as night fighters.

She pulled her legs up, but the next leaper would reach them easily.

All the leaper prays for at the moment is the chance - maybe - to try again.

But was it while you were climbing down that she saw the leaper?"

The sound was soon lost in the shriek of dying Leapers.

"He is going to make a very fine leaper."

Ahk seemed to rise up out of the ground to the Leaper's right.

Before he could jump again, the first of the Leapers burst into view and spotted him.

We had accumulated an impressive bulk of data on the Leapers.

This class was a great leaper and an able climber, like Conan.

In the absence of the two black leapers, the same move would capture the other five pieces.