Now that the specific institutions have been chosen, those figures may be revised, development officials said.
A spokesman for the F.D.I.C. declined to comment on Mr. Hohlt's hiring because the agency does not discuss specific institutions.
As things stand, certain products and services can be offered only by specific institutions.
Employers are increasingly likely to target specific institutions, and even individual courses, for recruitment.
"We have various thoughts for our future, but we don't have any specific institutions in mind," said the spokesman, who declined to be named, citing company policy.
"The details of the new company's support for specific institutions such as the Met sponsorship will be addressed by the transition team that has just been established," he said.
Specific institutions devoted to horticultural research, however, go back to the beginning of the experiment-station system, the first being a private laboratory of John Bennet Lawes, with the later collaboration of Joseph Henry Gilbert, in Rothamsted, Eng.
Fiefs were also given to governors and other officeholders to provide their income, and lands in the form of vakifs designated for the support of religious, educational, or charitable enterprises were assigned to specific institutions.
While the Fed does customarily release data in the aggregate about its lending — the bank bailout is about $2 trillion, all told — it has always shielded information about specific loans to specific institutions.
"Under current legal conditions, the state is not obliged to return works of art it does not possess, as they belong to specific institutions or private individuals," he said.
Hence, there is room for improvement in specific institutions.
