Article: What a difference.(NationsBank of Florida N.A. President Adelaide Sink)(Company Profile)

A study in contrasts, NationsBank Florida's president thrives in a cookie-cutter corporate culture by not fitting the mold.

In the early 19th century, while visiting a remote village in Siam, the Southeast Asian nation now known as Thailand, a couple of U.S. merchant mariners marveled at the sight of two 11-year-old brothers named Chang and Eng. The otherwise healthy-looking twins were joined at the hip, a deformity that required each to place an arm over the other's shoulder as they walked. Struck by the rarity of the sight and, no doubt, envisioning its commercial possibilities, the sailors persuaded the twins' parents to let them take the boys with them to ...

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