1.   As budgets contract, appetites are expanding for old favourites such as oxtail soup and casseroles.

2.   At the same time, health and welfare services will have to expand for a growing and aging population.

3.   The economies total output, its Gross Domestic Product, expanded for much of the eighties and peaked in the middle of nineteen ninety.

4.   Although Swiss industrial activity expanded for a third month in a row in February, rising unemployment is seen hindering a speedy economic recovery.

5.   And the Palestinians believe that Israel must be pressed firmly on the issue of settlements, which have continued to expand for seven years despite international objections.

6.   And the U.S. stock market has been expanding for the past seven years in a row.

7.   Another, to be funded by a new cigarette tax, will subsidize drug coverage for the elderly and expand coverage for poor, uninsured children.

8.   As Asian economies slump and more people miss loan payments, work is expanding for local debt collectors.

9.   At the same time, Gore would add to the costs of Social Security by expanding benefits for widows and giving stay-at-home parents credit toward Social Security benefits.