The low growth will also make the Treasury's task more difficult, as it struggles to raise the funds needed for the big expansion of public services planned by the Chancellor.
While some of the overhaul's provisions would take effect within months of its passage, the big expansion of coverage wouldn't happen until 2014, when new health insurance marketplaces open for business.
Later this year, Ninjago, the next big expansion for the game, will launch.
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The first big expansion was one that didn't cost Mesa any cash.
When Terminal 4 was given the go-ahead in 1978, the planning inspector, Ian Glidewell, approved its development on condition that it would be the last big expansion at Heathrow.
With a quantum theory of gravity, we may be able to trace the Big Bang expansion back to its very beginning, and understand precisely how our universe arose, presumably from nothing.
The other big industrial expansion revolves around the unconventional oil and gas boom.
Yet the proposed rule from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology threatens the company, which has big expansion plans in the country, in two important ways.
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Aside from tiny operations in China (to make gaming electronics for Macau casinos) and Canada (mainly scoreboards), this is the first big manufacturing expansion outside of Brookings.
Ms Shields is the European boss of Facebook, and has overseen a big expansion of the business since arriving in 2010.
Republicans also worry that the bill marks the start of a big expansion of government.
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The third and trickiest category is the ten countries that joined in the big enlargement of 2004 and in the later expansion of 2007.
Wielding a black Magic Marker, he charted the big bang of channel expansion and audience fragmentation that has propelled television history so far, from the age of the three networks, each with a mass audience, to the hundreds of cable channels, each serving a niche audience twenty-four-hour news, food, sports, weather, music and on to the dawning age of Internet video, bringing channels by the tens of thousands.
The International Energy Agency, an energy watchdog for rich countries, reckons that the expansion plans of the big Western and state-owned oil firms will leave the world 12.5m barrels per day short of requirements in 2015.
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Some make sense, like a big expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, which tops up the earnings of poor workers.
Sainsbury's, formerly the market leader but now in second place, is planning a big expansion of its Local stores over the next three to four years, creating in the order of 10, 000 jobs.
The recent legal moves against Big Tobacco have hastened the trend towards consolidation and expansion in developing markets.
In particular, it throws a spanner into the expansion plans of several big regional banks, including Mellon, which is based in Pittsburgh, and BankBoston and Fleet, both headquartered in Boston.
Sales of the Peugeot cars and Cherokee jeeps MBf assembles may slow as Malaysians cut big-time spending and the government tightens credit expansion.
But, although Longbridge plays a big role in the local economy, it is the expansion of services such as the conference trade, law and accounting which have been the big job generators in the west Midlands in recent years.
From the team that created Titan Quest, Grim Dawn has big ideas for the future, including full-blown expansion packs rather than micro-transactions or DLC that will introduce new stories, classes, and so forth.
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But the big unresolved issue is how such an expansion in education will be paid for.
Fiscal conservatives are resigned to a big expansion of deficits in the short term but they want an early commitment to deal with entitlements as well.
The rising birth rate is driving a big expansion in primary school places, with many temporary classrooms being added, and this is set to move through to the secondary school population.
But Avis's big expansion plans (from the current ten rental stations in China to 70 by 2008) are largely driven by demand from businesses with a large share of foreign investment.
The carrier, which has ambitious expansion plans, is likely to have got a big discount on the order for the super-jumbo aircraft.
That's why priority was put on a big expansion in education funding in the Recovery Plan, again, to ensure that kids were getting a healthy head start.
Maybe that's because the '80s represented something of a sports sweet spot, coming after free agency and racial integration had become the norm, but before further expansion, big payroll disparities and salary cap rules began making it tough for top teams to assemble and stay together.
The biggest component of that big increase in his budget, according to Mr Daniels, will be the expansion of Medicaid required by the new law.
Many construction firms, in particular, are hoping for a big expansion of public sector work as the government drive to boost public services gathers steam.
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