21.   Now, a growing number of commercial bankers are strapping on suspenders of their own and fighting back by underwriting more securities themselves.

22.   Reed and Weill said they did not plan to adjust compensation to reduce friction between commercial bankers and investment bankers.

23.   Some commercial bankers said that how the bank deals with the crisis in the next few days would be critical to deflating concerns over its ability to regain confidence.

24.   The federal agency that regulates the Farm Credit System scrapped a package of new lending rules after criticism by commercial bankers and a key member of Congress.

25.   U.S. commercial bankers say German banks want their rollovers guaranteed by the South Korean government before they dig themselves in any deeper.

26.   Wanless is soldiering on to try and prove he can become one of the few commercial bankers to successfully develop an integrated investment bank and securities firm.

27.   At the time, President Boris Yeltsin ordered a criminal investigation to determine if government officials or commercial bankers had plotted to disrupt the national economy.

28.   Commercial bankers point out that while official aid has dropped, they themselves have been lending much more in recent years.

29.   Commercial bankers privately say they are wary of extending new credit because of the danger of picking up more bad debt.

30.   Commercial bankers too are under scrutiny not only in Malaysia but worldwide as the effects of the Asian economic crisis reverberate across the globe.