Ensuring that coverage
expansions include an adequate benefit package will also be a challenge.
Furthermore, say opponents,
expansions come in the face of static demand.
The optimum strategy for any
expansion is one that is both efficient and cost-effective.
* Wildlife:
Expansions of either trail systems or real estate development can fragment habitat vital to bears, mountain sheep and goats, elk, deer, mountain cats, moose, nesting songbirds, or other alpine or forest-dwelling wildlife.
Barring unexpected developments in either consumer credit policies or the wealth or income position of households, we do not believe that current debt levels pose a threat to the continuation of the present economic
expansion. However, although balance sheets are sound overall, the trends affecting different household groups have been uneven.
Even with the announced capacity
expansions, that amount of projected growth would require over 100% capacity utilization by 1998.
Since banks stopped begging to lend money for
expansion, companies have been scrounging for other financing sources for new projects.
The biggest news in investment, though, was in
expansions of Arkansas firms.
Using a computer program that analyzes the geographic distribution of DNA differences, Templeton concluded that humans experienced size
expansions largely within continents, with periodic contact across continents.
The $45-million
expansion and renovation project at the Lakehead airport has been under way for about two months.
Fueled by recession-defying local
expansions, significant relocations and the slowing of new sublease availabilities, Westchester County's office market proved remarkably resilient in the third quarter of 2002.
These capacity increases are in addition to the numerous
expansions completed last year, most notably the 50%
expansion by ITRM, and a 15 million pound
expansion by R&S Processing.
