71.   Large private equity funds have been investing in the nurse staffing business for several years.

72.   Last summer, WestLB helped finance the management buyout of the Mid Kent Water Co. through Swan Capital, its private equity vehicle.

73.   Lawrence Schloss, who had been head of private equity, was considering leaving but is now staying to run that division at Credit Suisse First Boston.

74.   Kennard is a managing director of Carlyle Group, a private equity firm whose chairman is Frank C. Carlucci, a defense secretary in the Reagan administration.

75.   Located on Sand Hill Road, the Wall Street of private equity financing, Mayfield and its competitors are bombarded by business plans.

76.   Market jitters and the slowdown in initial public offerings since the stock market peaked in early March have had an impact on all types of private equity investments.

77.   Mills, a Providence, R.I. native, is married to Karen Gordon Mills, who runs a private equity firm she helped begin in New York.

78.   Montreal, Quebec-based Caisse de depot is the latest of a wave of foreigners to invest in Latin American private equity funds.

79.   Most commercial banks with strong corporate lending units want investment banks that can underwrite stock, negotiate mergers, and arrange private equity placements for clients.

80.   Most of the best performers did so by investing a big piece of their portfolios in private equity, a category that includes venture capital.