1.   But the comparison obscures more telling data, indicating New Jersey has been left in the dust of brisk national expansion.

2.   The brisk expansion of output elsewhere in continental Europe has confounded earlier predictions of hesitant recovery or worse.

3.   The increase also suggested that housing might help propel the economy to brisk expansion in the early months of the new year.

4.   The state is just now emerging into a brisk expansion, more than two years after the rest of the country.

5.   Introduction of the Maybach comes at a time of brisk expansion and diversification for Daimler and other German automakers.

6.   The sharp downturn in bond markets was more than offset by brisk expansion in other market segments, the report said.

7.   Their economies were operating close to potential, with growth led mainly by domestic demand, and brisk expansion of intra-regional trade and investment flows.