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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.
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).
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:
The U.S. economy grew 4% as a whole in 1999, but in the final quarter of the year, wage and benefits costs to US businesses swelled by a higher-than-expected 1.1%.