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Mr. Berlusconi has struggled to assert authority over his increasingly fractious majority in Parliament as a widening debt crisis racks markets in Europe and threatens Italy.

They say he has exploited the generational fissures, as well as a widening class divide, to win support at the expense of social unity.

The shift reflects what analysts and pollsters describe as a widening acceptance of gay men and lesbians in American political and cultural life over the past decade.

As a widening income gap has pushed up welfare rolls in recent years, struggling cities like Kitakyushu have been under intense pressure to tighten eligibility.

Then condemnation transformed into what is now being described as "a widening revolt", joining together Labor state premiers, a former Liberal prime minister, indigenous leaders, religious leaders, police, and more than 60 community and indigenous groups.

For decades the Israelis drawn to the site were mainly a fringe of hard-core zealots, but now more mainstream Jews are lining up to enter, as a widening group of Israeli politicians and rabbis challenge the longstanding rules constraining Jewish access and conduct.

Officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have urged doctors to look for the finding, known as a widened mediastinum, if a need for X-rays is indicated.

The small particles with higher surface stresses are manifested as a widened energy level gap.

The arrest came as part of a widening police inquiry known as Operation Yewtree, into "Jimmy Savile and others," the spokesman said.

LONDON – British authorities on Monday charged two former brokers at RP Martin Holdings with fraud as part of a widening investigation into the manipulation of global benchmark interest rates.

Starting next week, more than 800 men in Michigan, most in this area, will be questioned as part of a widening federal investigation into terrorist threats to the United States.