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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.
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.
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).
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.