1.   A spokesman would only name the top bankers the firm had hired from First Boston.

2.   A top Fed banker said he simply wanted the industries to stop squabbling.

3.   By last year, the two top bankers for small businesses were not banks at all, but the credit card issuers Mountain West Financial and American Express.

4.   Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and other top central bankers face a risk.

5.   For weeks, Hashimoto and other top bankers had resisted calls by the Finance Ministry to put up more funds and to step down.

6.   He came from a well-respected Moscow family and was educated at prestigious universities along with several top bankers.

7.   He has dogged underworld bosses, pursued top bankers and bureaucrats once considered untouchable, even leveled graft accusations against fellow policemen.

8.   In fact, in the last election, the Clinton administration was criticized for having banking regulators attend fund-raising coffee gatherings with top bankers.

9.   It is a concern that some top bankers privately say is warranted.

10.   Lazard has no company stock and options to be parcelled out to top bankers as many competing firms have.