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The New York Times leads with a Census Bureau report that the ranks of Americans without health insurance swelled by 1.7 million last year.
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).
account fund has swelled and contracted, depending on the pricing whims of the state's banks.
As Washington's economy improved, the reserve fund swelled to today's $1 billion, creating a political opportunity for I-695 mastermind Tim Eyman, who makes his living selling mail-order sorority wristwatches out of his Mukilteo garage.
Here comes Miles, authoritatively quoting Diodorus, the Greek historian, who recorded (60-30BC) that “innocent women even swelled the ranks of pitiful slaves whose forced labour built the pyramids: