Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...evidence since Harvard's Early Action Program began in the 1970s and has accelerated over the past decade. More top students are ready to apply to college earlier, having developed their academic and extracurricular talents more intensively than students of previous generations. While there are some students who profit from a more leisurely pace and begin to realize their potential only during the college years or well beyond, the average student applying to Harvard and Radcliffe today is more advanced academically and extracurricularly and may be better prepared for the complexities of college life than his or her predecessors were...
John F. Kennedy Jr. expects his political magazine George "will turn a profit in 1999 -- a year ahead of estimates," reports the New York Post. Speaking to the paper, the publisher cited the movies "Wag the Dog" and "Primary Colors" as having heightened the public's awareness of how cool the Washington arena can be. "All of a sudden," Kennedy told the Post, "the connection between politics and pop culture became vivid...
...stands to profit most from the expansion of the Oil for Food program the U.N. put into place just before Kofi Annan went to Baghdad? The new plan will allow Iraq to increase its sales to roughly half the amount of oil it was pumping before the Gulf War. As it turns out, France and Russia pushed the program much harder than Iraq, which initially feared this option would reduce pressure to get sanctions lifted. But Saddam Hussein realized that the more cash he could earn to buy food to keep Iraqis from starving, the more hard currency reserves -- into...
...this fund, but he's not going to do anything about it." Except, that is, for unconfirmed reports that Whitehead has turned over copies of those letters to Judge James Henry Michael in Charlottesville, who is investigating President Clinton?s claims that Paula Jones brought her suit for personal profit. If that is true, Whitehead may have taken his ultimate revenge on the Legal Fund -- and shot the Jones case in the foot...