And Texas is fast expanding its capacity.
Drilling – along with fracking – is fast expanding across Europe, South Africa and Russia.
It is fast expanding into the nation's imperfect substitute for universal health insurance.
And the opportunities for smaller, quirkier American films are fast expanding, too.
America is fast expanding its economic and military ties with Pakistan's great rival, India.
Satellite radio companies are fast expanding their services to include channels with public-radio-like content and sensibility.
How is it addressing the fundamentally dysfunctional infrastructure of our fast expanding cities, our reliance on systems of transport that simply ingrain congestion and inefficient chaos?
In 2001 its brewing operations went and most of its pubs were sold around the same time, a year later becoming part of fast expanding landlord group Enterprise Inns.
He has since delved into the Talmud and is fast expanding his Hebrew vocabulary to recite Hebrew prayers and sing Hebrew songs.
"WE FEEL more at home in Africa," says Tim O'Hanlon of Tullow Oil, an Irish firm that is fast expanding on the continent.
