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But the prison population has now swelled to a record 1.3 million, and the nation's dropping crime rates mask trends such as the increased average prison stay (22 months in 1990 to 27 months in 1997, the most recent figure available).
Although foreign asset holdings in the United States have swelled in recent years, not until 1998 did the United States pay more in interest, dividends, and other investment returns to other countries than it received on the assets it held abroad.
This is a refundable credit paid by the IRS to below-median-income workers that has, over the last 25 years, swelled both in size and in the esteem with which it is held by Republicans and Democrats alike.
As figure 1.2 shows, household wealth accumulation has swelled relative to disposable personal income even as the flow of saving from current income has dwindled.
The crackdown on Chechnya has swelled the popularity of Boris Yeltsin's flailing administration, but the Russian system remains robustly pluralistic.