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Bank Systems & Technology July 29, 2008 Katherine Burger	The Pressure on Management Is Intensifying as Conditions Continue to Worsen in Banking That technology -- and the people who manage it -- are not the culprits here is small consolation as the business prospects in banking become ever bleaker.
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