Between 8 and 10 Dow issues made a new yearly high on the Dow within a month of the October 1998 low, IBM, MRK, JNJ, WMT, INTC and MO are five are remember from the top of my head, am guessing that AA, EK, XOM, SBC also did or were very close to, that was early leadership that allow for a sustained advance.
Zeev