问答题 《复合题被拆开情况》 Misery may love company, but this was ridiculous. More than a million IBM stockholders last week took a nightmare ride on a stockthey had long trusted. IBM had been sliding all year, recent hitting【S1】________10-year lows. But after the company announced Tuesday that it would, among other things, slash another 25,000 jobs, the stock took a historicrise. In 48 hours, it lost 11 points, or almost 18 percent of its value,【S2】________closing Wednesday at 517/s. On Friday it hit other new low. Big Board【S3】________officials camped out on the exchange floor to prevent chaotic, and【S4】________brokers fielded frantic calls from investors in various stages of disbelief and agony. "They’re screaming and hollering," said Carol Komskis of York Securities. "They are saying, ’Things like this just don’t happen in America. ’ " Even worse news could come: IBM warned that it may have to cut its dividend. Stock prices that rise and fall are anything new; that’s what makes a【S5】________market. But Big Blue had always epitomized the blue-chip stock thatyou could count on to send the kids to college or help you retire in the【S6】________style. Some investors may be in blissful ignorant; pension funds across【S7】________the country are heavily investing in IBM. ( The New York state【S8】________employee pension funds lonely hold 3. 6 million shares. ) But the charm【S9】________of stocks such as IBM, General Motors and Westinghouse was that youcould feel secure in buying them even you did not know " earnings"【S10】________from your elbow. Such stock made generations of Americans faithful capitalists. "This was the kind of stock that created wealth for a lot of people in this country," says Jonathan Pond, a Boston-based financial counselor and author.《问题》：【S4】