The explanation for all this is undoubtedly the open maw and changing dietary habits of the world's fast-expanding population.
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But it still retains a unique atmosphere in a city where the capital's expanding population is reflected in its growing sprawl.
By contrast, small businesses in Texas have been sprouting like bluebonnets in the spring to meet the demands of an expanding population.
Most predictions in the field verge on the apocalyptic, warning of extreme shortages of food and widespread hunger in a rapidly expanding population.
One of the things that I discussed with the Mayor is how both cities can learn from each other on strategies around clean energy, because one of the issues that ties China and America together is how, with an expanding population and a concern for climate change, that we're able to reduce our carbon footprint.
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Baldwin's clients include the expanding homeless population, day laborers, the elderly and other poor people in the area.
For the ocean to continue to do what's it's done for millions of years and serve the needs of a rapidly expanding human population, it needs to be healthy.
The expanding world population and the on-going switch towards consumption of meat and dairy produce as incomes rise are already putting pressure on freshwater supplies, which increased growing of biofuel crops could exacerbate.
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"This new funding will enable us to undertake research that will lead to gains in the sector at a time when food production practices must be refined to accommodate the expanding world population, " he added.
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Those are tiny numbers compared with the four million students studying Spanish in this country, but Mandarin's appeal is growing, both because of economic prospects and because of an expanding Chinese immigrant population here.
India is currently self-sufficient in most foods but its population is expanding very rapidly.
It is widely believed that the world's population is expanding rapidly, even exploding.
Now the population is expanding fast - more than 13% are immigrants, attracted by plentiful jobs, high wages and a comprehensive care system.
As a side-note and basis for comparison, Facebook took the approach of targeting a limited demographic (college students) before expanding to the broader population.
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With an expanding and increasingly literate population throughout Europe, the arts became commercialised, the author and the composer selling their productions through the publisher and the impresario.
Due to an aging population and expanding healthcare to those who previously could not afford coverage, one in 10 U.S. jobs expected to be in this sector by 2018.
The investing sweet spot is a market where strong job growth is predicted over the next three years, the population was expanding rapidly before the recession began and home prices are at or near their bottom.
Now, it appears that they want their leaders to focus on the basics: creating better-paying jobs, protecting the population, expanding trade, improving access to technology, developing infrastructure in rural areas, and improving relations with foreign countries and trade partners.
Land is finite, population is still expanding and the motor car's dominance may not last much longer.
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Russia has over a third of its population online, and this share of the population is rapidly expanding.
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Such strategic initiatives, combined with high population growth rates and an expanding middle class in emerging markets like China and India, could provide Kimberly Clark with sizable long-term volume growth rates.
There may be something out there it badly needs: oil and gas for its expanding economy, or food for its growing population, at non-extortionate prices (and sometimes, maybe, at a special discount).
Cleveland actually lost people, with a population decline of 8%, while expanding its built-up area by 33%.
Barely more than 4% of the working-age population is jobless, and inward immigration is expanding the labour force.
When it needs room the town, with a nonstudent population of 42, 000, just keeps expanding outward, converting farmland into housing developments and technology parks.
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But in a population of 1.2 billion people, it is the expanding middle class of 300 to 400 million that lures multinationals.
Wireless operators are rapidly expanding their reach, which presently extends to 3, 500 towns, covering a population of 300 million people.
The search juggernaut is faced with the endless task of reading and ranking the ever-expanding Web's billions of pages, the equivalent of putting the Earth's population in order from tallest to shortest every few minutes.
The company is aiming for a global market, with the first phase targeting UK and Asia, and then expanding into the Middle East and the Americas, and eventually into every country with a Muslim population.
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