61.   Not so at an investment banking firm where business from corporations depends on steady relationships.

62.   On Wall Street, there is often a flurry of movement at investment banking firms following the distribution of annual bonuses.

63.   Polaroid has hired two investment banking firms to advise it in a possible sale of all or part of the company.

64.   Reebok said it retained investment banking firm CS First Boston Corp. to assist in the Avia sale.

65.   Retail-oriented regional investment banking firms in the Tennessee Valley and across the nation will also be included in the syndicate, the TVA said.

66.   Sanjiv Arora of RBC Dain Rauscher Wessels, an investment banking firm in Minneapolis, favors Guidant, a smaller stent maker.

67.   Separately, LVL Communications hired Bentley Hall Von Gehr, an investment banking firm, to seek strategic investors in consumer technology and services.

68.   She called her husband at his Atlanta mortgage banking firm.

69.   Southern National Corp., Winston-Salem, N.C., agreed to acquire the investment banking firm Craigie Inc., Richmond, Va., for an undisclosed amount.

70.   Such a gentlemanly approach comes more easily to commercial banks like HSBC than to investment banking firms like Goldman.