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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%.
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:
account fund has swelled and contracted, depending on the pricing whims of the state's banks.
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.
It is estimated that the area occupied by the swelled Golgi can be ~ 5-10 times the normal size for Golgi complex in HEp-2 cells.