Large-scale foreign investment sparked the expansion of other industries as well.
Pesticide research in the 1990s identified clofibric acid as a widespread aquatic contaminant, which in turn sparked an expansion of method development and pharmaceutical research in subsequent years.
The directive sparked an expansion of research into children's health, including asthma, across the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the government's principal agency for research that leads to improvements in public health.
Regional shopping malls were launched across the country, sparking rapid expansion of Sears, Penney's and department stores to anchor them.
Support for great US-China environmental diplomacy could spark an expansion of cooperation at all levels of US and Chinese society.
As is typical in classical capital flow cycles of this sort, foreign borrowing sparked an economic expansion, which became a boom, which became a bubble, which has now burst.
That sparked a rapid expansion in an industry with little experience, critics say.
Although the CIA's authority for assassination, covert intervention, surveillance, and torture was curtailed at the close of the Cold War, the terror attacks of September 2001 sparked an unprecedented expansion in the scale of the intelligence community and a corresponding resurgence in executive exceptions.
The United States grew through territorial expansion in the first part of the 1800s, but that expansion also sparked a war with Mexico, expanded slavery and led to the systematic relocation and brutalization of Native Americans and other occupants of lands seized by the U.S. government.
The cult's expansion has sparked fear and anger across Japan.
Even though the current boom has sparked an impressive 8% expansion in the number of tech jobs in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Jose-Sunnyvale-Santathe past two years, and 10% over the past deClara the area still has 12.6% fewer STEmetropolitanin 2001.
