Such measures have only softened the slowdown in recent years, not generated a robust expansion.

"We need extensive training programs and a robust expansion of the private sector to create more opportunities."

But at the same time, the pace of growth will begin to slow from the last two years of robust expansion.

The rosy survey results follow a period of robust expansion for Japan.

Only robust expansion in America can prevent a further slowdown in the industrial world as a whole.

Continued fiscal discipline will contribute to maintaining robust expansion of the American economy in the future.

Reports showing gains in housing starts and manufacturing suggested that the economy was continuing its robust expansion.

Elsewhere in New Jersey's edge cities, people debate whether they really want the robust expansion of the 1980's to return.

America's robust expansion is attributable to immigration and a healthy birth rate.

Of all the leading developed and developing countries, only Japan has yet to show robust expansion in a fully globalized age.