1.   Lehman Brothers, the investment banking firm handling the sale, went to Harvester and objected on simple moral grounds.

2.   Meanwhile, stock prices of several investment banking firms rose sharply Thursday.

3.   Altman, a former partner at the Blackstone Group, an investment banking firm, got to know Jordan when he was at Pepisco.

4.   Analyst Perry Walter of Robinson Humphrey Co., an Atlanta-based investment banking firm, said companies could repeat their role in driving the computer boom.

5.   And, he noted, investors have been more willing to pay a premium for the shares of banking firms with higher growth potential.

6.   Andrea Dunlevy, an analyst with Thomas Weisel Partners, an investment banking firm, said Planetrx and Drugstore.com would eventually break the stalemate.

7.   At his death, he still controlled a boutique investment banking firm, the Loeb Partners Corp., which he founded some years ago.

8.   Baltimore-based investment banking firm Alex.

9.   Bankers Trust would give Deutsche Bank a middle-rank investment banking firm.

10.   Before joining Fannie Mae, he was a general partner in municipal finance at the investment banking firm of Lazard Freres Co. in New York.