Last year, after a 67-year expansion, the Colombian economy contracted.
There were indeed four recessions from 1969-82 just as there was a 106-month expansion after 1961.
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After years of double-digit expansion, even 6% annual growth feels like a hard landing and will exacerbate social tensions (see article).
After 14 quarters of double-digit expansion, the services sector grew 9.6% in the second quarter, largely due to a slowdown in the real estate and financial sectors.
Economic activity among manufacturers in the central-Atlantic region contracted in June after months of slowing expansion, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's manufacturing general-business index.
The expansion comes only a year after Wal-Mart revealed Justice Department and SEC investigations of whether it bribed officials to spur the growth of its Mexican subsidiary.
And it is possible that this will mean the expansion dies a conventional post-war death after all.
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The Co-operative said its expansion had been made possible after changes to the Legal Services Act, which allows a major brand to offer a range of consumer legal services previously only available from private solicitors.
Target could see a number of easy year-over-year comparisons in 2013, after incurring costs related to an expansion into Canada this year.
Yet the very solution that had been adopted for Japan's macroeconomic problem after its stock- and property markets crashed in 1990, a big expansion of public-works spending, ended up making reform harder.
Two floors go on to depict the intellectual flowering of the Scottish enlightenment (epitomised by David Hume and Adam Smith), and the economic explosion fuelled by British imperial expansion that took place after the union with England, with exhibits ranging from Paisley-pattern textiles to silverware and steam engines.
News of the program's expansion to two new counties comes as the federal government approves the "morning-after pill" without a prescription for girls as young as 15.
President Barack Obama, after earning what seemed to be anti-war bona fides by opposing the 2003 Iraq invasion, has driven this expansion.
And TD Ameritrade, formed in 2006 after the bank acquired the stake, is an important link in Toronto-Dominion's U.S. expansion strategy, together with the expansion of a Portland, Maine-based commercial bank, TD Banknorth.
Season-ticket seekers rang phones off the hook in the team offices the day after the National League announced its expansion into the city in the summer of 1991, laying down deposits for seats they wouldn't see for two years.
And TD Ameritrade, formed in 2006 after the bank acquired the stake, is an important link in Toronto-Dominion's U.S. expansion strategy, together with the expansion of a Portland, Maine-based commercial bank, TD Banknorth (nyse: BNK - news - people ).
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