The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.

During his presidency, the company's physical plant was enormously expanded, and the length and breadth of the Brown & Sharpe machine tool line became the greatest in the world.

Founded in the Ninth Century B.C. it was called Byzantium 200 years later when Byzas, ruler of the Megarians, expanded the settlement and named it after himself.

The infield was well flooded but the expanded outfield was much too dark.

This was expanded upon by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who established a Division of Anthropology within the Geological Survey in 1910.

One of these became the Latin alphabet, which was spread across Europe as the Romans expanded their empire.

Under the Cronquist system of taxonomic classification of flowering plants Asteraceae was the only family in the group, but newer systems ( such as APG II and APG III ) have expanded it to eleven.

Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).

Slavery was gradually phased out of existence in the North and was fading in the border states and urban areas, but expanded in highly profitable cotton states of the Deep South.

The Reverend Nangle expanded his mission into Mweelin, where a ' school ' was built.

Johnson's personal attitude of white supremacy was seen in his hostility toward expanded rights for freedmen.

The following year the Amiga product line was expanded with the introduction of two new models: the Amiga 2000 for high-end graphics and business use, and the Amiga 500 for home use.

The name was also changed to Atlantic Baptist University, a reflection of expanded student enrollment and academic accreditation.

Ælfheah's shrine, which had become neglected, was rebuilt and expanded in the early 12th century under Anselm of Canterbury, who was instrumental in retaining Ælfheah's name in the church calendar.

The basic APC design was substantially expanded to an Infantry fighting vehicle ( IFV ) when properties of an armoured personnel carrier and a light tank were combined in one vehicle.

In the 14th century the city was expanded in two stages, and a second defensive wall was constructed.

A Theatre and Concert Hall was constructed in 1883, which was renovated and expanded in 1995 – 96.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

However, as occurred so often in this region, the demise in 1030 of this military genius who had expanded the empire to its farthest reaches was the death knell of the dynasty itself.

On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

As the economy expanded during the 19th century, advertising grew alongside.

The Industrial Revolution transformed Berlin during the 19th century ; the city's economy and population expanded dramatically, and it became the main rail hub and economic center of Germany.

Through an empire, colonialism is established and capitalism is expanded, on the other hand a capitalist economy naturally enforces an empire.

As Emperor, Domitian strengthened the economy by revaluing the Roman coinage, expanded the border defenses of the Empire, and initiated a massive building program to restore the damaged city of Rome.

** Openness Euphoria, 1974 – 1982 during which policies were introduced to encourage Arab and foreign investment through a series of incentives and liberalizing trade and payment ; the economy expanded but this proved unsustainable and growth consequently scaled back.

In overall, during 2004-2007 the economy of Georgia expanded by 35 %.

Agriculture is presently of little importance in the economy but climate change in southern Greenland, the growing season averages about three weeks longer than a decade ago has enabled expanded production of existing crops.

Marshall Plan funding helped overcome bottlenecks in the surging economy caused by remaining controls ( which were removed in 1949 ), and Marshall Plan business reforms opened up a greatly expanded market for German exports.

The peninsula's economy expanded under Roman tutelage.

Prior to the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ), the economy of Saint-Domingue gradually expanded, with sugar and, later, coffee becoming important export crops.

The $ 512 billion economy expanded 4. 4 % in the first quarter from a year earlier and last month, the IMF revised its 2009 forecast for the country to 3-4 % from 2. 5 %.

In 1947, Karachi was the focus for settlement by Muslim migrants from India, who drastically expanded the city's population and transformed its demographics and economy.

The Liberian economy between 1847 and 1980 expanded from primitive agriculture, through large scale rubber industry, to exploitation of mineral resources and rendering services.

Since the 1970s, the tea industry in Taiwan has expanded at a rapid rate, in line with the rest of Taiwan's economy.

These dams, along with a series of headworks and barrages built by the British and expanded since independence, are of vital importance to the national economy and played an important role in calming the raging floodwaters of 1992, which devastated large areas in the northern highlands and the Punjab plains.

Relations with China have recently been expanded, especially with regards to the economy.

According to the UNDP, investments in light manufacturing have expanded in Bosaso, Hargeisa and Mogadishu, in particular, indicating growing business confidence in the economy.

After reconstruction and recovery, the private sector would give way to expanded public ownership in most areas of the economy.

The depression ended, prosperity returned, and Canada's economy expanded significantly.

After reaching a low point in the early 1990s, the economy slowly expanded again, reaching its 1989 level by the end of the decade.

Before this the main stay of the infant colony's economy was the growth export of tobacco, but tobacco prices eventually fell in the 1630s as Chesapeake production expanded.

The Irish economy expanded at an average rate of 9. 4 % between 1995 and 2000.

During the immediate postwar period, the Soviet Union first rebuilt and then expanded the BSSR's economy, with control always exerted exclusively from Moscow.

The economy expanded rapidly during the 1950s and 1960s, attracting thousands of Portuguese settlers to the country.

In that way, political economy expanded the emphasis of economics, which comes from the Greek oikos ( meaning " home ") and nomos ( meaning " law " or " order "); thus political economy was meant to express the laws of production of wealth at the state level, just as economics was the ordering of the home.