expansion
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The Convention Center expansion has already attracted 18 event contracts, and the city is negotiating more than 100 with large convention holders, said Doanne Liu, head of the city’s Tourism Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
But that would come with a chunky expansion of the amount of further education, training, health support and likely jobs subsidised by the taxpayer too.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
They have beaten just one currently ranked team, Oregon at 13th, and given the expansion of the Big Ten have drawn a very soft conference schedule.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
He expects Boyd to compound earnings through disciplined store growth, market share gains and margin expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
An explosion, an expansion of stars and galaxies and planets and suns, our little planet with all our little lives, and then everything turning to dust, until nothing in this universe exists anymore at all.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
Their goal is to investigate the earliest expansions of modern humans across Europe, including how these populations interacted with carnivores in places where bones and other organic remains are scarce.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
The private sector has added only about 61,000 jobs a month since November 2023, far below the 155,000 average during the 12 economic expansions between the end of World War II and the 2020 pandemic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
While new hospitals offer longer-term growth opportunities, expansions of existing hospitals and daycare facilities could provide more immediate opportunities to maximize returns from existing assets, she adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Its the latest in a series of expansions for Vallarta, which opened a store in Rancho Cucamonga in April and opened its first location outside of California in Arizona in January.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
We already discussed such historical expansions in Chapters 16 and 17 for the Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and other East Asian language families.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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