1 The following issues were recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission:
2 Intermec Corp., offering of 1,050,000 common shares, via Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood Inc.
3 Middlesex Water Co., offering of 150,000 shares of common stock, via Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc. and Howard, Weil, Labouisse, Friedrichs Inc.
4 Midwesco Filter Resources Inc., initial offering of 830,000 common shares, to be offered by the company, via Chicago Corp.
5 Nylev Municipal Fund Inc., offering of five million common shares.
6 Occidental Petroleum Corp., shelf offering of $1.5 billion in senior debt securities.
7 Prime Motor Inns Inc., offering of up to $300 million zero coupon convertible debentures, via Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. and Montgomery Securities.
8 Service Fracturing Co., proposed offering of 1.2 million shares of common stock, via Lovett Mitchell Webb & Garrison, Inc., and Blunt Ellis & Loewi Inc.
9 Western Gas Resources Inc., initial offering of 3,250,000 shares of common stock, of which 3,040,000 shares will be sold by the company and 210,000 shares by a holder, via Prudential-Bache Capital Funding, Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., and Hanifen, Imhoff Inc.

Nylev Municipal Fund Inc . , offering of five million common shares .
five million common shares
why so much?