The additional employment due to the Recovery Act has therefore almost certainly produced relative expansion of such procyclical sectors, while countercyclical sectors, such as utilities, health care, and government, have seen their shares of total employment shrink relative to what would have been seen in the absence of stimulus.

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Favorable policies tied to business size, such as loan guarantees and regulatory exemptions, generally succeed in producing more small businesses, by encouraging more business starts but also by diminishing the relative returns from expansion.

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The leads also need to be flexible enough to deal with the large thermal expansion of the chip relative to the plastic on which it is mounted yet another engineering headache.

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Multiple expansion occurs when stock prices move higher relative to earnings or when earnings move lower relative to price (as in a recession).

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At the time, the competing teams expected to find that the more distant supernovae were slowing down, relative to those nearer - a decline of the expansion of the Universe that began with the Big Bang.

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