They questioned the need for any more expansion, pointing out that demand had fallen dramatically in recent years.
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"We have decided - the CDU-CSU faction in the Bundestag - that there would be no more expansion at all, " he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.
Meanwhile, at their conference, the Liberal Democrats backed a motion proposed by the MP for Cambridge, Julian Huppert, to continue to oppose any more expansion in the South East.
At the other are those who side with the IMF, which last week prescribed a course of fiscal retrenchment for the world, softened with a commitment by central banks to extended easy monetary policy and perhaps even more expansion of their balance-sheets.
More international expansion is likely in the second half of 2011.
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Under a CHP standard, the chemicals industry would generate nearly 200 billion kWh by 2035, compared with a more modest expansion for pulp and paper, which grows to about 75 billion kWh.
Netanyahu has been pushing more settlement expansion ever since the Palestinian leadership petitioned the United Nations for nonmember state status, which it received on November 29 after the majority of U.N. member nations approved it.
Developing and selling communications equipment requires a significant capital, and Silver Spring will need more money to support its expansion and compete more effectively.
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The chart below ( click here for larger image) shows that revenues are expected to grow (because of factors such as inflation, more population, and economic expansion) by more than 7 percent each year.
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But the expansion is still viewed as weak compared with more than 8% expansion as recently as in 2011.
Stock prices for health insurers declined in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling because by giving states more flexibility regarding the Medicaid expansion, three million more people than originally projected will be covered by private insurers in the exchanges.
With the money, the company plans to get more aggressive with expansion into foreign markets.
But for the most part, these up-and-coming state systems are more focused on expansion than on retrenching and survival.
The fact is, both companies and consumers have the financial capacity to fuel an even more vigorous economic expansion.
It is widely expected that the Federal Reserve will announce more balance sheet expansion, or quantitative easing, on Wednesday.
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If Lanni pulls it off, he's got lots more room for expansion.
But when you boil it down to its elements, the Internet of Things is, today, little more than an expansion of traditional telematics, security and asset control applications.
Even in California, a state more hostile to Wal-Mart expansion than others, the company managed to convert more than 30 old-style stores last year.
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"For us, the Fantasyland expansion was more than we could have imagined, " Lee says.
Companies have responded to the slowdown by exercising more caution in their expansion and investment plans.
No one is certain which route it will take, but further expansion seems more likely.
Burdened by debt from over-expansion, more than ten have filed for bankruptcy protection in the last two years.
This expansion attracted more money, from Scottish Enterprise Tayside, a local economic-development agency.
That's considerably more than the entire expansion of the children's health insurance program.
This business has less correlation with the PC business and more closely follows the expansion of data center activity.
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Or is it an outdated holdover from an age when conquest and military expansion were more admired than they are now?
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Perhaps even more important, the expansion of the energy sector is galvanizing manufacturing, hitherto the weakest link in the material boy economy.
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Jersey Dairy has given more details on its expansion into foreign markets.
They argue rate cuts will encourage businesses spend more and boost economic expansion which has slowed to its weakest in a decade.
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