"Although risks remain, the global economy is having its strongest sustained expansion in more than 30 years and is becoming more balanced, " the central bank presidents and finance ministers said in a joint statement.
And there was a sustained expansion of the higher-education system: the share of working-age adults with a university degree rose from 5% in 1980 to 14% in 1996 and 31% in 2011, a faster increase than in France, Germany or the US. The combination of these policies helped the UK to bridge the GDP-per-capita gap with other leading nations.
And with an ageing and shrinking population, no one should assume that sustained economic expansion will allow utilities to earn their way out of the hole over time.
Investors do not fully appreciating how powerful and sustained the LED expansion will be over the next decade.
They were hoping for signs of sustained profit margin expansion and revenue growth in its fourth quarter, which may offer signals for the health of the IT industry for 2011.
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Mr Latham was attempting to oust Mr Howard at a time when Australia had entered its 13th consecutive year of economic growth, the longest sustained period of expansion in its history.
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In 1986, President Reagan signed a comprehensive tax reform plan that closed loopholes, lowered rates, simplified the code, and sustained what was then the longest economic expansion in peacetime since World War II.
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.
Any economic expansion that does not result from increased voluntary saving and investment cannot be sustained.
And if sustained for a year, the UK would be heading towards the growth rates of emerging economies, as their heady expansion heads south.
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