The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said manufacturing in New York State expanded for the first time in seven months.
The Angels were born the next year as Major League Baseball expanded for the first time, and this is their first World Series.
Official statistics released this month showed that GDP expanded for the first time in five years earlier this year.
The domestic economy expanded for the first time in nine months in the second quarter, growing 0.3percentt from the previous three months, the Federal Statistics Office said.
Mr. Fleischer said that under the Bush plan, "the existing standard Medicare benefit package would be expanded for the first time to provide prescription drugs for those who remain in the fee-for-service program.
National poetry day has been expanded for the first time to embrace song lyrics, and the BBC has organised a poll for the nation's favourite, to be announced tomorrow night.
As it updated its data with more detailed information, the ONS confirmed that all four main sectors of the economy – agriculture, production, construction and services – had expanded for the first time since the third quarter of 2010, just after the coalition came to power.
HONG KONG — The Chinese manufacturing sector expanded for the first time in more than a year in November, according to the early reading of a business survey released Thursday, in the latest sign the world's second-largest economy may, for now at least, have skirted the sharp slowdown that many economists had feared earlier this year.
BEIJING — China's factory activity expanded for the first time in four months in August as domestic demand rebounded, a private survey showed Monday, a further sign that policymakers may have averted a sharp slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
The last piece of data to be released before Wednesday's growth figures showed that the output of the combined manufacturing and energy sectors expanded for the fourth time in five months, helped by a strong performance from the eurozone's biggest economy, Germany.
