Authorities have since expanded an evacuation area in an effort to protect nearby residents.
The revenue grab, buried in a package passed last September, expanded an old law mandating withholding on sales by nonresidents.
In 2009, a Culture Media and Sport Select Committee said the purchase expanded an area "where the BBC has no, or very limited existing interests".
The department store can discover that your waistband has expanded an inch or so since last year, the airline knows that you usually fly with its main rival, the restaurant remembers that you drink Pinot Grigio.
It also wants an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, an expanded saver's credit and a permanent exclusion from capital gains taxes on small business investment. (Does anyone think green energy tax credits will vanish anytime soon?) One ghost that keeps returning: the research credit, first introduced in 1981, which allows companies to write off a portion of their research and development expenses.
Plus, even just taking the time to plan for an expanded project is an opportunity in itself to showcase your initiative, creativity, and project planning skills.
In a separate development, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was waiting for the Syrian government to allow a team of chemical weapons experts into the country for an expanded investigation following an attack on a village outside Aleppo in March.
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The oil sands were an important national resource, but had to be expanded in an environmentally friendly way.
You might say that Walmart would never, ever start hawking its own e-readers, but crazier things have happened -- Best Buy has an entire brand devoted to in-house goods, and Amazon itself has expanded from an online storefront for laundry detergent and bestselling novels to a bona fide hardware mainstay.
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India's economy expanded by an estimated 5% last fiscal year, according to the statistics ministry.
Third quarter gross domestic product expanded by an annualized 2.7%, greater than the first estimated of 2.0%.
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In the first quarter of this year, Americans' consumer spending expanded at an annual rate of 6%.
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The economy expanded at an annualized pace of 2% in the third quarter, according to the Commerce Department.
Between 2005 and 2008, for example, infrastructure spending in China expanded at an annual clip of 21 percent.
Fourth-quartile stocks, which expanded revenue an average 167% a year over the decade, included such winners as Williams-Sonoma.
In 2005 Wu renamed the outfit MediaZone and expanded to an array of international sports and entertainment sites.
That operation expanded to an Israeli attempt to install a pro-western government that was willing to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
Chile's economy has expanded at an average rate of 7.2% since 1987.
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Plans are under way for the competition, which was won by England's under-23 non-league side last month, to be expanded to an eight-team event.
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Eventually, it expanded to an office building and 14 employees.
And the economy is growing at quite a clip: even in nominal terms, GDP expanded at an annual rate of 2.6% in the fourth quarter of last year.
However, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the sector expanded by an annualised rate of 3.1% in the October to December period, compared with the previous three months.
The Mexican economy expanded by an average of 4.4 percent in the first half of the year, but in June the monthly GDP proxy index at the Central Bank (Banxico) showed growth dipping to 3.8 percent, mainly because of a slowdown in U.S. demand.
In the middle of the 1990s, for the first time since India became independent in August 1947, the country's economy expanded by an annual average of more than 9% four years in succession, that is until the impact of the ongoing international recession saw the Indian economy decelerate.
During the quarter Verizon continued to execute its global cloud strategy, rolling out an expanded portfolio of secure IT solutions and an operational model for its Terremark subsidiary.
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The social network added a new home for its transparency reports, transparency.twitter.com, and expanded the report to include more details about the requests and an expanded entry to cover the activity in the United States.
Microsoft will announce an expanded partnership with Hortonworks as part of its effort to provide customers with access to an enterprise-ready distribution of Hadoop that is fully compatible with Windows Server and Windows Azure.
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The company also announced today an expanded partnership with Hortonworks, a commercial vendor of Hadoop, to give customers access to an enterprise-ready distribution of Hadoop with the newly released solutions.
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Also in May, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) posted an expanded list of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) degrees that enable graduates to qualify for an extra 17 months of Optional Practical Training (OPT).
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