71.   Investors are concerned that the economy is expanding at a quicker pace, raising the risk of inflation.

72.   Investors remain cautiously optimistic that the economy is not expanding at a pace fast enough to heat inflation.

73.   It has at its disposal expanded databases and an array of sophisticated surveillance equipment to monitor commercial and personal communications and movements.

74.   It would also dominate at Kennedy Airport and greatly expand at La Guardia, where it will jointly operate the hourly US Airways Shuttle with United.

75.   Last week, Greenspan roiled global financial markets by suggesting the U.S. economy may be unable to keep expanding at its current pace without generating inflation.

76.   Loan portfolios are still expanding at a healthy clip and problem loans are accelerating slower than in the fourth quarter, analysts said.

77.   Manufacturing activity expanded at a sluggish pace in May from April in the mid-Atlantic region, as prices rose, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond said today.

78.   Manufacturing continued to expand at a healthy pace.

79.   Meantime, the demand for money, which also determines rates, could be expanding at a slower pace.

80.   Meanwhile, even the once red-hot service sector is no longer expanding at the same pace it had been.