Allison employs approximately 2, 500 workers in Indiana and last month announced a plan to expand its Indianapolis operations that will create up to 205 new jobs by 2013.

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The government began a review last month of how the UK might expand capacity in the South East.

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In the West, Xcel Energy (nyse: XEL - news - people ) last month issued requests for proposals to expand its wind facilities in Minnesota, and the company recently announced plans to build the largest solar plant in the United States in Colorado.

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Now it will expand that partnership significantly, Lotus CEO Dany Bahar announced last month.

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In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott, a former hospital corporation executive whose loathing of Obama's health care law fueled his candidacy, was excoriated by tea partyers for last month's about-face to expand Medicaid in Florida.

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But at a meeting with analysts last month, Mr Gates acknowledged that Microsoft would expand its security-software offering.

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In the aftermath of last month's elections, DeLay moved quickly to expand his influence and install a leadership team more beholden to him than any other member--including, perhaps, incoming Speaker Livingston.

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Last month, official figures showed that Spain's economy did not expand between July and September compared with the previous three months.

BBC: Spain passes tobacco tax increase