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...private-banking operations. While retail banks must focus on volume by hawking me-too products to millions of less-wealthy customers, private banks can rack up bountiful revenues by offering a wide range of lucrative services to a smaller number of rich and superrich clients. It's not uncommon for a top private banker to thrive with as few as a dozen clients, who are happy to pay richly for personal guidance on such esoteric matters as, say, reducing taxes, setting up a low-risk-high-return hedge-fund portfolio, investing in emerging-markets property or establishing a charitable foundation...
...Traveling in and out of Israel for Arabs and for Muslims from all over the world, that kind of treatment is not uncommon. Neither are strip searches. Profiling in Israel is not a dirty word...
...knives and demanded he hand over all of his belongings. The victim gave the four males his watch and money. The assailants—who were white and looked to be approximately 17 and 18 years of age—are still at large. Though such crimes are not uncommon at Harvard throughout the year, they usually do not occur on Prescott Street, according to Cambridge Police Department (CPD) spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello. Because the incident did not occur on University property, it is being investigated by the CPD. —KATHERINE M. GRAY
...Apac district hospital near Alenga, where THETA has encouraged the nurses to accept traditional approaches, it's not uncommon for patients to ask a healer for supplemental herbs or to check themselves out to seek traditional remedies. But even in Apac, the doctors are not so accommodating. Okello carefully fills out referral forms provided by THETA, but they often come back with no comments or diagnosis. "We don't get the feedback," says Okello, who takes it upon himself to make sure patients are following their regimens. "Maybe they feel it time wasting...
...anticipate a slight reorganization at the staff level, which is not uncommon during transitions,” John D. Longbrake, the president’s spokesman, wrote in an e-mail...