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...soundest in the world. The U.S. came in at No. 40, and Germany and Britain ranked 39 and 44, respectively. (Switzerland was No. 16, just ahead of Namibia.) "For Canadian banks, having higher capital ratios than anyone else in the world is a source of pride," says analyst Mario Mendonca with Toronto-based investment bank Genuity Capital Markets. (Read "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...
Despite such horror stories, the pace of bank mergers is likely to accelerate as McColl and his rivals battle for market share. "The next five years will make the past five look tame," says Lenny Mendonca, a senior partner at the McKinsey consulting firm. Mendonca says that the number of large national banks could shrink from about 40 today to as few as six or eight shortly after the turn of the century...
Dave Hoover wanted to be a lion tamer ever since he was a kid and saw Clyde Beatty's cheesy jungle movies. George Mendonca went to Rhode Island after the hurricane of '38 and stayed to become a topiary gardener. Ray Mendez, a photographer, had a high school fascination with insects; 20 years later, he learned that there were mammals--naked mole rats--living in colonies like insects, took photos of them, brought them home. Rodney Brooks is an M.I.T. scientist who loved to build things; now he makes robots whose movements are not programmed but follow the machine...
...Baseball is really nice to study because there are good numbers," says Mendonca, who concluded that there is indeed racial discrimination in major league baseball...
...admitted baseball buff also concluded that Blacks are over-represented at both ends of the salary spectrum but start out making less than comparable white players. Discrimination affects mediocre Block pros the most, Mendonca argues...