Other trends, including the huge expansion in self employment in the U.S., promise to accelerate telecommuting in years ahead.

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And that way the expansion then becomes more self-generating and sustained, and perhaps to some extent makes believers out of even those who sort of argued against the fact that it would continue, and certainly, I think, put to rest any talk of double dips.

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Nevertheless, it firmly rejects any expansion of the scope of self-defence under Article 51.

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The rise of the self-sufficient home comes amid an expansion in green homebuilding that is projected to swell to between 29% and 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.

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And the industry should look to its own self-interest: it would be a shame if reckless expansion spoiled a good innovation.

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Although OC3 has been self funded to date, the company will be inviting new investors to help fund its expansion into the retail space.

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It is hard to ignore the role of European expansion in the creation of the underdeveloped world's extractive institutions which, in self-perpetuating fashion, continue to constrain reform and development.

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