• In fact, Goldman Sachs has supposedly nudged Facebook to expand the size of the sale.

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  • But we've had to expand the size of aprons, the size of the departure lounge.

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  • This fiscal year, Apple plans to expand the size of 20 stores and add 30 more world-wide.

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  • President Obama could always expand the size of the court and pack it with his own people.

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  • We should also continue to waive fees, increase guarantees, and expand the size of SBA-backed loans for small businesses.

    WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Opening Doors for Small Business

  • Security Council is expected to meet Saturday and vote on a resolution that would expand the size of a U.N. monitoring mission in Syria, Western diplomats said.

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  • China's development will expand the size of the global market.

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  • Baroness Jones of Whitchurch feared selective schools would "cherry pick" the best-performing pupils from nearby comprehensives if they are allow to expand in size or create "satellite schools" in neighbouring areas.

    BBC: Labour hits out at grammar school plans

  • Third objective, to stabilize Afghanistan and the Afghan government enough so that Afghan national security forces could be trained up -- could expand in size and be trained up so that they could gradually take over security of their country, take the security lead.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • So I think the best way to do that is for Vice President Suleiman, as the head of this process representing the Egyptian government -- is to expand the size and scope of the discussions and the negotiations with those that are not in power, and to take many of the steps that we outlined yesterday, one of which is lifting the emergency law.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Rather than expand the class size, the school asked for volunteers willing to wait a year to enroll, sending out an e-mail just a couple of weeks before the Aug. 23 kickoff barbecue.

    WSJ: Bad Math: MIT Miscounts Its New B-School Students

  • More than any other factor on the horizon, the self generating momentum for capital to expand, coupled with the size of the global financial sector, will influence the shape and tempo of global economic growth going forward.

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  • But its scope to expand has been limited by the size of its home market.

    ECONOMIST: Bank mergers

  • The force-feeding process, called gavage, causes the animals liver to expand up to 10 times its size.

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  • The result is a prototype battery that can expand to three times its normal size, but can still last for eight to nine hours.

    ENGADGET

  • In March, Colorado introduced new gun legislation to impose limits on the size of ammunition magazines and expand background checks for gun buyers.

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  • Hotels will have to begin figuring out how to expand rooms for popular sessions and reduce their size for a second or third session of a presentation that has become a dud, and do it while the conference is running.

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  • What this does is expand the installed image to use the maximum available size of your SD card.

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  • If anything, as companies increase in size and complexity, it becomes tougher to expand at a rapid pace.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He has plans to expand Rising Star in the coming years, tripling the size of the circuit by 2013 to capture about 30% of the country's box office.

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  • After all, in spite of Israel's sure knowledge last summer that Hamas and Iran would use a cease-fire with Israel to increase the size of Hamas's missile arsenal and expand the range of its projectiles while building up its forces, the Olmert-Livni-Barak government agreed to the cease-fire.

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  • Typically, capital costs will expand with distance from land and water depth and contract as the size of a project increases.

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  • Lower start-up costs and less strict worker protection make it easier for innovative entrepreneurs in America to experiment on a small scale (hence the smaller size of new firms), to test the markets and to expand.

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  • But because of its size, the U.S. Justice Department won't let Vail expand in Colorado--opening the way for Intrawest to bid for such prime properties as American Skiing Co.

    FORBES: Slippery Slope

  • The brand began offering push-button start in 2007 on its Altima mid-size sedan, a mainstream product if ever there was one, and has continued to expand the offering across its portfolio.

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  • Otellini predicted the size of the new markets Intel can sell into will grow in the midteens and Intel will expand in tandem.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Investment bankers say that some Japanese companies are so worried about rising public debt leading to a bond-market crash or to inflation (how else to get rid of debts of this size except by printing money?) that they are trying to shrink their domestic operations and expand their foreign ones.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese finances

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