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Prior to any formal decision to enter into a merger agreement, the local bank spent $83,450 to (1) investigate the products, services and reputation of the acquiting bank, (2) ascertain whether the merger would be a viable business combination and (3) ascertain whether the proposed transaction would benefit the community.

By the time young Clarence Major began frequenting the Institute, Kuh had revolutionized the museum's annual surveys of contemporary art - which before had been chock full of the provincial and the pallid - and had begun an aggressive program of acquiting modem art for the museum.