Lynch noted that the two portfolios being sold have different characteristics and may interest different buyers.

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Those are all characteristics that get our interest.

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While it is far from the norm, we see renewed interest in our troubled economy in the characteristics it takes for companies to become resilient, self-sustaining and to serve as long-term partners and contributors to their employees, their communities and their customers.

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Some characteristics are beyond their control: When the interest rates tick downward, loan applications flood through the door.

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We are likable when we take an active interest in our co-workers, when we find those characteristics in them that are praiseworthy and freely dispense praise.

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They soon focused on a much smaller bank, also well-run and having similar financial characteristics in such areas as return on equity, interest margin, loan quality, etc.

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But growth also brought inflation, which crippled Brazil until the mid-1990s and still accounts for some odd characteristics, such as the country's painfully high interest rates and its disinclination to save.

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Fortunately, just because DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ) owns a controlling interest in Mitsubishi doesn't mean sharing a platform delivers the same drive characteristics.

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