### formation | incline | bank:

Eye bank
* Most eye banks focus on retrieving corneas.
* are banks
  - institutions that collect test store and distribute corneal tissue
  - non-profit organizations
* collect eyes for corneal transplantation.
* concentrate on retrieving tissues used in eye surgery that restores or improves sight.

Food bank
* act as an agency of conservation to the food industry.
  - important to agricultural producers in a number of ways
  - now a way of survival for thousands
  - the center of food collection and distribution for poor people in a community
* exist to connect needy people with wholesome donated food from many sources.
* provide temporary assistance to help families through a crisis.
* serve as suppliers to hunger relief agencies such as food pantries and soup kitchens.

Investment bank
* are also active players in the Japanese venture-capital market
  - investment firms
* have a central role in Australia's financial system.
* help clients to invest excess capital and to borrow needed capital.

Islamic bank
* function in the U.S. mostly through leasing.
* support sustainable development by providing loans without interest.

Japanese bank
* Most Japanese banks are a sclerotic pile of vested interests and fossilized hierarchies.
* Some Japanese banks have big foreign operations.
* are large with huge loan portfolios
  - notorious for maintaining separate personnel departments for years after union
* offer regular and time deposits and checking accounts for businesses.

Large bank
* Many large banks are dealers and market makers for government obligations
  - have branches everywhere
* like to do business with large corporations.

Local bank
* invest in foreign stock markets to absorb excess liquidity.
* keep a limited amount of foreign currency in their smaller branches.
* lend money to poor people in communities in the South.

Merchant bank
* function both as financial agents and as financial intermediaries.
* provide financial services to companies rather than to individuals.

Private bank
* provide financial and investment management services for elite clients.
* tend to cater to affluent individuals.

Riverbank
* Some riverbanks have density.
* are alive with wildlife
* has greenhouses where they grow plants.
* often support a growth of riparian forest.

Seed bank
* Some seed banks contribute to regeneration
  - have fire
* are critical in the effort to preserve the genetic diversity of agricultural crops
  - vulnerable to political upheaval, fires, and earth quakes
* can even buffer populations from extinction in the face of catastrophies.

Several bank
* allow an overseas company to open a merchant account in Europe.
* operate branches abroad, including in the United States.

Spoil bank
* consist of marsh soil and organic material.
* disrupt the natural source of sediments needed for accretion and block overland flow.
* host thick hardwoods.

Swiss bank
* are the principal agents for Russian gold operations.
* play a very important role in the international financial markets.

### formation | incline | bank | thrift institution:

Building society
* Building societies are societies
  - can fill many gaps arising from the disillusionment of households
* thrift institution

Tissue bank
* Some tissue banks process and distribute the tissue they receive.
* are businesses, and they have to make business decisions.

Hillside
* Some hillsides are part of hills
  - molehills
  - slopes
  - steep and the summits of most mountains are rounded
* can be vertical.
* farming on terraces greatly reduces water erosion of soil.
* often remain frost free until a more severe frost occurs.

Mountainside
* Some mountainsides are part of alps
* are part of mountains
* burst from pine-forest green to every shade of orange and yellow and gold imaginable.