Creatively, it can be as much about contraction as expansion.
Miami, along with the Chicago Fire, entered the league as expansion teams in 1998.
The long-term shareholder that has held the stock through downturns as well as expansion periods?
Other cities mentioned as expansion possibilities were Memphis, Louisville, Ky., San Diego and New Orleans.
United Parcel Service said today that its fourth-quarter earnings rose 9.5percentt as expansion in Europe increased international shipments.
That extension, and one after that, proved profitable to players as expansion increased the job market and drove up wages.
As expansion efforts go, the Whitney Museum of American Art's record of futility is hard to match.
"Earnings in 2004 should be further enhanced as expansion projects are completed and if current metal prices persist," the chief executive, Derek Pannell, said.
In the first decade of the 21st century, net migration trends shifted as expansion of the province's resource industries provided new job opportunities.
And both Sony and Handspring have pushed their hardware further than Palm, introducing innovations such as expansion slots and add-on devices from phones to music players.
In their PR spin, these corporations suggest that we face key tradeoffs: either accept chemicals, engineered seeds, and synthetic fertilisers as well as expansion of cropland into forests – or face more hunger.
