Word: expansionist
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McColl's conquests have enriched the shareholders of NationsBank and the banks it has bought--shareholders that include many bank employees, from tellers to vice presidents. But the growing profits of NationsBank and other expansionist lenders have come in part from new and higher fees charged customers, shuttered branch offices and a decrease in traditional services at teller windows and by telephone. How long can any business keep increasing profits if many of its customers feel neglected? One answer can be found in a state that McColl has targeted for expansion: California. There, Wells Fargo, after its hostile 1996 acquisition...
...Jefferson's presidency starts a vast expansionist drive across the continent...
...latent tensions between Harvard's expansionist tendencies and those seeking to protect affordable housing in Cambridge have flared again this year...
...Russia reverts to its traditional expansionist policies, in the absence of NATO, a nationalist state will be tempted to extend its control into the power vacuum to the west. But if the U.S. extends its security guarantees to the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians, Russia will find Eastern Europe more than it can swallow...
...Crips network is estimated to have distributed hundreds of kilos of crack and cocaine powder worth well in excess of $10 million on the street. And Q's network, according to the FBI, is only one of perhaps a hundred more in operation. They emanate from Los Angeles' increasingly expansionist gangland. Says FBI special agent-in- charge Charley Parsons in Los Angeles: ``The gangs are literally franchising themselves...