Its new Merrill Edge online discount brokerage will go live on Monday, and it should help the company combat the expanding influence of the likes of Charles Schwab Corp.
For the U.S., the key to convincing those countries to act as an alliance is to make the case to them that there in danger from Iran's expanding influence in the region.
What is perhaps most jarring about Iran's ever-expanding influence is the disparate responses it elicits from Israel and Sunni regimes like Egypt and Saudi Arabia on the one hand, and the West on the other.
Dr Asfour has played an immense role in expanding the influence of Arab culture.
French officials said it was necessary to prevent Islamists from expanding their influence in the region.
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Some investigators fear a turf war may have started between local hoodlums and Camorra mobsters intent on expanding their influence.
Although just 10 of more than 500 members of the new parliament are women, the signal we received is that Egyptian women are committed to expanding their influence and their ranks, and to ensuring that the constitution under development will fully protect the rights of women in Egypt.
This morning, Murdoch promoted James, the younger of his two sons, to deputy chief operating officer, expanding his sphere of influence, previously limited to Europe and Asia, to the entire globe.
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At the other extreme, Saudi Arabia, the most important exporter, is a swing producer, able to vary production levels more easily than most and thus has a crucial role when OPEC seeks to influence the price by restricting or expanding demand.
By expanding overseas, Simon is able to take advantage of its influence with retailers that covet locations in Simon's top-producing malls.
What Mr. Daschle's lucrative career as influence peddler really illustrates is how much Washington is now expanding its reach over the economy.
The expanding nuclear industry in Japan is keen to prevent citizens' groups from gaining influence, as they have done in America.
Their aim was to influence firms "where they're starting up and where they're expanding", he said.
The chill in relations has been prompted largely by Mr Sarkozy's fierce opposition to Turkish membership of the EU. Expanding the club to take in a large, poor and Muslim country would dilute French influence.
In her much-discussed new book, "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, " Annie Murphy Paul describes the ever-expanding efforts of researchers to determine how maternal diet, weight, stress, exercise and other factors can influence fetal development.
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