Meeting in Brussels, European finance ministers discussed ways to increase the financing capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility as well as broadening its role to allow it to buy bonds or extend credit to countries, perhaps to help in future bank restructuring.
The arrangement is in keeping with Sun's strategy to rebound from a devastating slump in the first part of the decade by broadening its role as a software vendor.
Since the financial crisis, the F.H.A. has broadened its role in the housing market and now backs about one-third of all new mortgages, up from just 5 percent a few years ago.
During his tenure as chief executive, the institute grew rapidly, opened a new research site in Florida, and broadened its role from basic research to also doing drug discovery, in some cases in collaborations with pharmaceutical companies.
The pact has a commitment of over $1 billion for Motorola, and broadened its role as a strategic supplier.
In addition to the traditional areas of laboratory testing, including clinical chemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology, and transfusion medicine, genetic testing is also broadening its role in the clinical laboratory field.
In addition to lymphocytes, recent studies demonstrate that CD45 can modulate activation and proliferation of several inflammatory cell types including granulocytes, mast cells and monocyte-lineage cells, broadening its role as a regulator of inflammatory responses (8, 20, 35, 48, 57).
After the meeting the NKAP broadened its roles to include bombing, torpedo attack, reconnaissance and interdiction.
In a move that would broaden its traditional role, NATO has offered to carry out the planning for a Turkish-led peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, NATO's secretary general, Lord Robertson, said today.
