Only if a good bank takes over the assets of a failed one should it be entitled to a shot of public money.

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After Faris answered with a bank shot for the Huskies to regain the lead, the Irish took over.

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West followed that by missing a 17-footer and Johnson answered with a 10-foot bank shot to tie it.

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To illustrate that it is baseless, he points to what he considers another great firm unfairly maligned by its critics as arrogant: Drexel Burnham Lambert, a freewheeling investment bank that shot from nowhere to market prominence in the junk-bond boom of the 1980s.

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The trio still faces charges related to allegations that they shot at a police officer in Florida and robbed a south Georgia bank before heading west.

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The bank was bought by Royal Bank of Scotland in a hostile bid earlier this month, and the Scots want to be shot of Gartmore.

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While SNS Reaal has been trying to direct its own trajectory, an attempt to unload its property loans into a so-called bad bank, with other Dutch banks as shareholders, was shot down by the European Commission earlier this month because of competition concerns.

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