81.   Banks expect that buying brokerage firms will boost their profits and help them keep customers who want to use one institution to help manage their finances.

82.   Ball works with a Houston brokerage firm, Sanders Morris Mundy, and recently was hired to also work with an Atlanta firm.

83.   Barton, a chemist turned day stock-trader, walked Thursday into the office of two brokerage firms where he traded and fired randomly at traders and employees.

84.   Barry Saywitz, president of real estate brokerage firm The Saywitz Co., said it will be much easier and more profitable to unload the Irvine property.

85.   Barbara Corcoran, who heads the Corcoran Group, another large Manhattan brokerage firm, said selling lists of available rental apartments was not new.

86.   Barton then crossed bustling Piedmont Road and walked into another brokerage firm, All-Tech Investment Group.

87.   Barton walked Thursday into the office of two brokerage firms where he traded and fired randomly at traders and employees.

88.   Bear Stearns has maintained that the brokerage firms dealing with the customers directly, not the clearing firm, must police the operations for fraud.

89.   Bankers Trust has also struggled to integrate the Baltimore brokerage firm Alex.

90.   Baron, a small Manhattan-based brokerage firm, ceased operations last summer, after a history of disciplinary problems with regulators.