31.   A nine-year-old expansion is no more likely to end than a two-year-old expansion.

32.   A. I doubt that expansion was part of the thinking here, because the Javits Center had other problems to deal with.

33.   Administrators insist that expansion is not imminent and may never happen, but faculty members are skeptical.

34.   But board officials say the expansion is not purely economic.

35.   But by the reckoning of many Republicans, the expansion is nothing more than an extension of a growth surge that began in the Reagan administration.

36.   But by the reckoning of most Republicans, the current expansion is nothing more than an extension of a growth surge that began early in the Reagan administration.

37.   But Clinton noted that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the Medicare expansion would not be a major financial drain on the program.

38.   But expansion has been the order of the day in food retailing, and Kohlberg Kravis has been in the thick of it.

39.   But even if the contraction turns out to be longer and deeper than expected, the next expansion should be pretty good, economically speaking.

40.   But expansion has been fastest in the last two decades as more and more women joined the work force.