With vast, hugely overstaffed branch networks and far weaker balance sheets, cutting costs and instituting a commercial credit-culture will be a gigantic task.

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To offset those losses, banks are shoring up balance sheets by cutting back on lending and dumping bonds and other assets in the markets.

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He spends about a month creating a single orb, which involves cutting and layering sheets of glass with graduating and diminishing circumferences, then honing the shape with a chisel.

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