41.   But banking lobbyists were noncommittal about their willingness to support the repeal of Glass-Steagall in exchange for avoiding the interest payment burden.

42.   But there may still be banking companies interested in buying Donaldson, Lufkin.

43.   Foster is banking on that.

44.   Jacobs suggested that banking is tougher than launching a rocket or teaching economic theory.

45.   On Wall Street, where investment banking fees are commensurate with the size of the deal, deal makers scoff and say Fleet Boston is not immune.

46.   Over the past generation, banking crises have been too regular to inspire faith.

47.   Simply put, Wall Street has decided banking is a better and safer business than it used to be.

48.   Such a plan reflects the rather pessimistic view held by Wells management that banking is such a rapidly shrinking industry that banking companies must reduce their capital bases accordingly.

49.   The high court, however, ruled that hair-splitting about whether the laws were exclusively banking laws, or exclusively insurance laws, was largely irrelevant.

50.   Then I argued that banking was my destiny.