1.   A spokesman for Goldman, the biggest U.S. investment banking partnership, denied the firm is in talks with Paine Webber.

2.   Even Goldman Sachs Group LP, the biggest and richest U.S. investment banking partnership, eventually will probably change owners, according to partners at the firm.

3.   Goldman is the largest U.S. investment banking partnership.

4.   Goldman, the biggest and richest U.S. investment banking partnership, rarely gets dismissed like this.

5.   Goldman, the biggest U.S. investment banking partnership, brings in-house the group that helped managed some of its real estate investments.

6.   Goldman Sachs Group LP, the biggest U.S. investment banking partnership, may extend its push into emerging markets by opening offices in South Africa and Russia.

7.   Montgomery, an investment banking partnership, has been seeking to sell a stake in order to get the capital it needs to expand.

8.   Montgomery, an investment banking partnership, has been seeking to sell a stake to raise the capital it needs to expand.

9.   Peterson is chairman of the Blackstone Group, a private investment banking partnership.

10.   San Francisco-based Montgomery, an investment banking partnership, has been seeking to raise the capital it needs to expand by selling all or part of itself.