Auto and light truck production hit a new low in this expansion in July, at 10.2 million assemblies (annual rate).
But over the past few years, the rapid expansion of low-cost Chinese manufacturers like Suntech, Yingli and Trina has sent the cost of conventional solar panels plummeting.
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Stanford's Noll concurred with those who say MLB is running low on viable domestic expansion sites, though he differs with Fort on the location of the next frontier.
In these heady days of American economic expansion and low inflation, his gloomy pronouncements may sound rather frumpy (Herblock, a cartoonist, always depicted Mr Martin in an old-fashioned stiff collar).
For Exxon, the merger spells expansion at relatively low prices -- the old John D.
The expansion allows all low-income people, or those under 133 percent of the poverty line, to qualify, according to NPR.
Investors are misled by the money expansion and artificially low interest rates to make investments that are dependent on those policies.
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Birns says that as Africa's cities get more populated and as demand for business is growing, the expansion of the low-cost model should revolutionize the continent's air transport in the same way that it did in North America, Europe and now in Asia.
Obama would extend the 2009 expansion of tax credits for low- and moderate-income families.
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We have experienced our longest economic expansion, with inflation remaining low and unemployment dropping to levels that economists a few years ago would have said were impossible.
The double-digit expansion, coming from such a low, means only a 0.3% contribution to economic activity.
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The expansion at Stansted arguably fostered the low-cost airline industry by offering it cheap landing rights there but it failed to relieve congestion at Heathrow.
Critics complain that the scheme's total costs have been higher than expected, but the flip side has been a dramatic expansion of coverage at a relatively low cost per head.
"This will be one step in the long road to human expansion off of the planet into low-Earth orbit and beyond, " NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, one of Burbank's crewmates aboard the station, said Friday.
Despite the recent weak readings, we expect business investment in equipment and software to grow at a moderate pace this year, supported by high rates of profitability, strong business balance sheets, relatively low interest rates and credit spreads, and continued expansion of output and sales.
But the new budget office analysis does not include the cost of a proposed expansion of the federally funded Medicaid system for low-income families, a proposal expected to add several hundred billion to the tab.
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Providing assistance for carbon-tax-induced increases in energy bills to all low- and moderate-income households would require a major expansion of the program, a substantial increase in administrative costs, and possibly a major overhaul of the program.
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However, margin expansion will continue to be hindered by competitive pricing, low investment yields and decreasing capital reserves.
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Weakness struck the country's biggest growth engines, with expansion in manufacturing, construction and agriculture all in the low single digits.
Even so, given the rapid expansion of the industry, the number of fatalities has been low.
It is certainly remarkably low by the country's past standards, the more so after a long economic expansion.
The court's ruling that states can choose not to comply with the law's Medicaid expansion could complicate decision-making for other employers that were betting some of their low-wage workers would get funneled into Medicaid under the law.
Investors now worry that mobile telecoms is merely a low-growth utility, rather than an industry on the verge of a new phase of explosive expansion.
Hence the Fed is going to rates sweet and low for many months to come and engage in more quantitative easing as it strives to maintain the tepid expansion.
The expansion, if implemented in all 50 states, is projected to cover an estimated additional 16 million low income and disabled people.
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