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Comments on the efforts of the Business Assistance Center (BAC) to gain funding from Strategy 2000 company. Details on the BAC program; Information on a grant request made to the Economic Development Administration.

Focuses on the Women's Investment Group in Fort Worth who contemplate the recommendation for its first stock purchase. Number of investment clubs nationwide, according to the Michigan based National Association of Investors Corporation; Comments from Martha Stephens, director of corporate services and advertising for the NAIC, a nonprofit support group for investment clubs.

Reports that Chase Manhattan Corporation which is a New York-based banking holding company announced plans to cut 4,500 jobs or 6.5 percent of its work force as well as take a $320 million net charge during the first quarter of 1998 for operations realignment. Number of people employed by Chase worldwide; Impact of the job cuts on Chase Bank Texas; Reason for the bank's realignment.