41.   North West is being advised by Kleinwort Benson, a U.K. stock brokerage.

42.   Not E-Trade, the brash Internet stock brokerage company.

43.   On a smaller scale, companies ranging from stock brokerages to department store chains have installed supercomputers based on parallel processing in the past two years.

44.   On a rainy Thursday morning, a huge crowd mills at the door of a stock brokerage one mile south of the city center, oblivious to the weather.

45.   One stock brokerage firm characterized the move as potentially monumental.

46.   Prudential Insurance jumped into the stock brokerage business, private partnerships, and real estate.

47.   Sears purchased savings and loans, the Coldwell Banker real estate brokerage and the Dean Witter stock brokerage.

48.   Several local stock brokerages are teetering on the edge of collapse.

49.   She is now a lawyer at Dean Witter, the stock brokerage, and often works with law-enforcement officials on issues like money laundering.

50.   Smith New Court is the last independent stock brokerage not owned by a U.K. or foreign parent company.