1.   Although the economy is stumbling now, the longest expansion in US history spread a bounty of jobs and rising wages to every corner of the United States.

2.   And the longest American expansion on record could come abruptly to an end.

3.   As Greenspan noted, the business cycle should not be presumed dead just because we are in the midst of the longest peacetime expansion in American history.

4.   But Europe is at the beginning of an economic rebound, while the U.S. economy is days away from setting a record for the longest expansion in its history.

5.   Clinton sought to emblazon his presidential legacy with the glowing statistics of what, at the end of February, will be the longest expansion in U.S. history.

6.   Computers have driven this economy to the longest expansion ever.

7.   If most of the money goes for consumption instead of paying down credit card debt, it means the difference between recession and sustaining the longest expansion ever.

8.   If growth continues for another year or so, it will be the longest expansion ever.

9.   It was the seventh consecutive rise and enabled consumer spending to grow four-tenths of a percent, pushing the economy toward its longest expansion ever.

10.   One day next spring, the Clinton boom will surpass the Reagan years and enter the history books as the second longest peacetime expansion on record.