81.   Smith Barney Inc., New York, a division of Travelers Inc., named Paul Santucci to head its New England brokerage business.

82.   Surging stock prices have also encouraged more people to enter or remain in the brokerage business.

83.   That investment seemed predicated in part on the belief that online stock trading was a separate subset of the brokerage business.

84.   That left William Harrison Jr., a vice chairman and director, free to focus on potential acquisitions in the brokerage business, executives at that bank say.

85.   That now looks unlikely, and in a recent interview, he said he was more than happy to continue running the retail brokerage business.

86.   The ads illustrate how quickly the online brokerage business has evolved.

87.   The Big Bang reforms will, among other things, let banks into the brokerage business in the next few years.

88.   The campaign illustrates how quickly the landscape has shifted in the brokerage business.

89.   The charge of misappropriation of funds was prosaic enough considering the even uglier stuff that can come up in the brokerage business.

90.   The deep-discount brokerage business is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.