51.   But this business expansion has been quite moderate and does not have the level of excesses, seemingly, in consumer credit and business inventories and capital expenditures.

52.   But voters are notoriously inactive in good economic times, and the current expansion is just six months shy of being the second longest in U.S. history.

53.   Certainly, economic expansion has been a tide that has lifted all boats, with per capita income going up for all groups over the years.

54.   Conservatives are quite likely to push for more nations to join, right up to the Russian border, although further expansion is sure to provoke the Russians.

55.   Company officials said the expansion is the result of exploding demand for fiber optics.

56.   Death penalty opponents said the expansion would be so great as to make the bill vulnerable to legal challenge.

57.   Delta last year launched several new routes to Latin America, but further expansion there is contingent on treaty changes.

58.   Despite cost reductions, Young said there could be an expansion of the number of news broadcasts.

59.   Duncan Muir, a spokesman for J.C. Penney in Plano, Texas, said its most recent expansions had been in Chile and Mexico.

60.   Diplomats say NATO expansion is at least several years away and half a dozen nations are in line ahead of the Baltic states.