31.   A few foreign banks can lend in Thailand -- but only through one branch office each.

32.   A high school student from Huntington, N.Y., who was born in El Salvador, said he was in the Garner branch office Wednesday for precisely that purpose.

33.   A Suffolk County police officer was shot in the leg after a robbery Friday at a NatWest Bank branch office in South Huntington.

34.   All the complaints focus on the activities of a handful of brokers in a Salomon branch office in Atlanta.

35.   Both men are being sent for six weeks to a podunk branch office, and this out-of-town sojourn will provide the perfect laboratory.

36.   But companies are also starting to embrace Internet technology as a way to save money by transmitting calls among branch offices using the computer networks they already have.

37.   But one longtime Schwab customer, who runs a San Francisco software firm and prefers to trade online, said he has no plans to frequent Schwab branch offices.

38.   Cash shortages also forced the closings of branch offices in Miami, New York, Montreal and Paris.

39.   Chemical Bank, which has only a representative office in Shanghai, applied to open a branch office two years ago.

40.   Connection consultants such as Barry prospect their geographic markets for business, working from branch offices.