On the encouraging side, the late expansion of the investigation lends credibility to the assumption that top management was not aware of the problems.

FORBES: Misreported Revenue, Part I: Lime Energy

Managing our expectations is a double-edged sword: we need one side for opening ourselves to expansion, and the other, for warding off the expectations of others.

FORBES: Why Your Unhappy Personal Life Is Good For Your Career

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.

ECONOMIST: Health care

He shows that if we have strict environmental resource limits then we cannot have infinite expansion of the physical side of the economy.

FORBES: Biofuels: Policy Based Evidence Making

The critics assume implicitly that all the expansion on the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet is offset by monetary liabilities, which simply isn't true.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Whichever side of the debate is correct, the era of expansion for British lap dancing appears to be over.

BBC: The rise and fall of lap dancing

For his much ballyhooed outpost here, he chose a curious Lower East Side space that has housed more than one failed Asian expansion project (Bia Garden, Rhong-Tiam).

NEWYORKER: Mission Chinese Food

So far, Inditex has only 16 shops in America, the world's biggest market, and aims to gets its European expansion going before pushing hard on the other side of the Atlantic.

ECONOMIST: Inditex