Metropolitan Federal permitted to expand.

SEATTLE -- Metropolitan Federal Savings and Loan Association of Seattle said the Office of Thrift Supervision has lifted an operating agreement that restricted the company's growth since September 1990.

Metropolitan, which has $365 million in assets, also said it had agreed to acquire the Tacoma branch of First Western Association of Wenatchee, Wash. The price was not disclosed.

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