71.   Nippon Credit is the smallest of the long-term credit banks, which are private banks that were formed by the government to provide capital to Japanese industry.

72.   Of course, Japanese private banks fawn over their clients, too, but with less fanfare.

73.   Officials claim that a scheme to help private banks clean up their balance sheets is at last starting to work.

74.   One other private Vietnamese bank, the Vietnam Maritime Bank, has also sold shares to foreign investors.

75.   Other sanctions include a cutoff of trade credits, private bank loans and American support for nonhumanitarian loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

76.   Overall, the private banks managed to make a profit in April and May, says Juan Carlos Echeverry at the national planning department.

77.   Osaka is thus aiming to join a growing list of private banks and government agencies whose help is being solicited to bail out depositors of Kizu.

78.   Private banks in South Korea have been singled out for special attention in the rollovers because they are linchpins in the local economy.

79.   Private banks like Deutsche Bank or Dresdner Bank are essentially prohibited from buying these institutions.

80.   PNB pays its employees about one-third what private banks pay.