41.   Other carriers will also use franchising to expand their presence, particularly in suburban or rural markets, Lowenstein said.

42.   Q. I understand that Disney has expanded its presence in Southern California.

43.   RNB Suisse is based in Geneva, although it has offices in Zurich and Mercury Bank will allow it to expand its presence in that city, Robertson said.

44.   Ruckelshaus is widely credited with revitalizing the Houston-based company and expanding its presence in the middle-Atlantic states, Florida, Germany and England.

45.   San Francisco-based First Nationwide has been expanding its presence in California while selling offices in other states.

46.   Seagate has bought software companies, disk-drive makers and other companies to expand its presence in the past three years.

47.   Seagram, on the other hand, is eager to expand the presence of its Universal Studios unit in cable programming.

48.   Similarly, several American investment banks have scrambled to expand their presence in Japan.

49.   Since February, the coalition has also expanded its presence in the Gulf of Oman, which smugglers from Iran can cross in less than a day.

50.   Sky has been planning to expand its presence into Asia.