Bursac's group is also trying to grow contracting human muscles using induced pluripotent stem cells instead of biopsied cells.
Steven C. Grundman, a former deputy under secretary of defense who now works for Charles River Associates, a consulting firm in Boston, said growing contract areas, like surveillance, could offer competition among ground-based, air-based and space-based platforms.
ATWood Oceanics (ATW, 25) is a small, growing, contract offshore driller.
Without thoughtful government intervention, this rate is only expected to increase, and the impact of growing contract employment could have negative implications for millions of Americans.
Demand is growing, not contracting".
So, whether the economy is growing or contracting in the election year is largely chance.
"We are growing, not contracting, and Ann is part of that," Ms. Kennedy said.
In gauging whether the economy is growing or contracting, should we rely purely on G.D.P., the broadest measure of output?
By the early aughts, the world of high-quality audio nonfiction "was sort of growing and contracting at the same time," Zorn said.
DuPont officials have said that demand for products such as titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in consumer goods, house paint and automotive coatings, often indicates whether the economy is growing or contracting, particularly in the short term.
