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Article: WASHINGTON MUTUAL AIMS TO STAY ON TOP COMMERCIAL BANKING KEY TO MAINTAINING SUCCESS, INDEPENDENCE.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 26, 1996
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Kerry Killinger's 15th-floor office in the Washington Mutual Tower looks north and west, not east or south at the skyscraper monuments of departed Seattle banks.
Out of his view are Rainier Square, home to Rainier Bank (bought by Security Pacific, then by BankAmerica) and later West One (sold to U.S. Bancorp), the former Pacific First Centre (Killinger's own Washington Mutual got it) and First Interstate (being bought by Wells Fargo).
Out of sight, but not out of mind. With another good financial year on the books, with more people knowing about the Washington Mutual story (it finished second on Fortune magazine's recent list of the 10 most admired ...