11.   Eventually, rising interest rates will translate into costlier home mortgages and other bank loans, slowing sales of expensive goods and curbing business expansion.

12.   He and other speakers cited global competition and productivity improvements as the main factors preventing revived inflation despite an uninterrupted business expansion of more than six years.

13.   Higher rates make corporate borrowing more expensive and can stunt business expansion, thereby damping profit growth.

14.   However, the crisis, if it lingers, could bring about a significant cutback in business expansion, the report said.

15.   Imports for business expansion, such as machinery, rose.

16.   In addition to a sharp reduction in employees, Priceline has reduced office space by almost two-thirds and postponed new business expansion indefinitely.

17.   Indeed, never in the postwar period has inflation been decelerating this far into a business expansion.

18.   Leaps forward in communications and transportation have spurred business expansion by lowering costs, raising efficiency and making possible transactions that were simply not feasible before.

19.   Low-interest loans are to be offered to encourage business expansion and modernization.

20.   More business expansion, more job creation, a growing economy, providing opportunity again.