On a recent weekday, Patrick Piccirillo, 56, leaned on the counter of his dimly lighted, sparsely stocked newsstand, which he has operated for six years outside Brooklyn Criminal Court.
For years, Mr. Saifi has operated with impunity in a sparsely populated zone stretching from Mauritania to Chad, recruiting militants and buying weapons for his comrades in Algeria.
Mr. Castano has also expanded his forces' reach into sparsely populated regions where they had only occasionally operated in the past, notably Putumayo Province along the Ecuadorian border.
Usually, SBSs deploy sparsely with each other to avoid mutual interference and are operated in a time-slotted manner.
Jim grew up in the then sparsely populated community of Balboa Island where his father, Donald Douglas, owned and operated the Douglas Boat and Canoe Company and his mother, Christine, was the first librarian of the Newport Beach Library.
This could lower premiums and encourage insurers to operate in sparsely populated parts of the country.
Olivier Gravelle, 29, operating in sparsely furnished offices in Paris, recently set up the French unit of Wideyes.com, an online job search company much like Monster.com in the United States.
Its noise would be much less of a nuisance; indeed, proponents suggest it might operate all through the night.A sparsely populated setting would also limit the effects of the air pollution that comes from planes landing, taxiing and taking off, and from the road traffic serving the airport.
Allowing nurse practitioners to operate independently is not an entirely new development — sparsely populated states with large rural areas, such as Maine and Washington, have long had laws on the books empowering nurse practitioners.
