John Hancock Advisers of Boston, which owns 385, 560 shares, or 8 percent of the total, today said it would back Mid-Atlantic Investors of Columbia, South Carolina, which submitted the shareholder proposal seeking " prompt sale " of the bank, which has lagged its peers in terms of profitability.
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If the U . S .-British invasion of Iraq had been followed by the organized looting of Iraqi museums and bank vaults, and the prompt sale of oilfields to U . S . and British companies, Iraqis would of course have protested bitterly and tried to resist, but at least they would have understood.
