The 1830s were Mobile's years of rapid growth and expansion.

Not in this business cycle, which, after five years of expansion, is behaving like few others.

After years of strong expansion, the company's revenues for 1996 reached only $482 million.

Isn't such low inflation unusual in the fifth year of expansion?

After years of expansion, credit now appears to be contracting.

In 1986, we reported another year of vigorous economic expansion.

After seven years of economic expansion, unemployment dropped below 5 percent last fall for the first time since the early 70's.

What followed were years of continuous renovation and further expansion.

That was a different time, those years of early expansion.

Last Wednesday, the nation entered its eighth straight year of economic expansion.