It's a great name, but it just doesn't travel well.

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Acronyms can be a handy way to escape a name that is suddenly wrong. Kentucky Fried Chicken became KFC when tried became unfashionable in the early '90s. And Bank of North Carolina will do business in South Carolina as BNC Bank, following its purchase of Myrtle Beach-based Beach First National Bank. Terms weren't disclosed. Beach First, with assets of $585.1 million on Dec. 31, was closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in April--the first South Carolina bank to fail since 1999. BNC...