Its military budget is the world's fourth-largest and is growing robustly as well.
Business spending, which has been anemic for much of the past two years, now appears to be growing robustly.
When the growing plant is exposed to sun through a break in the canopy it grows robustly.
In addition, the Latino food market is growing robustly, at around 6 percent a year.
The mining, energy and water industries also grew robustly, as did the services sector.
But some hospital analysts say revenues will continue to grow robustly in the Clinton Administration.
The pharmacy benefit managers have been growing robustly, and their stocks are up more than 80 percent this year.
In the long run, he said, the society and the workers suffer because the economy is unable to grow robustly.
Since March, the economy of the city has been growing far more robustly than that of the nation.
It pointed out that the economy was growing robustly after a slowdown in the fourth quarter of last year.