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The documents showed that the effort to draw up new rules for interrogation after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks drastically widened the scope of techniques considered at the highest levels of the administration, but also in the end a reluctance to endorse many of them.

The provision would have drastically widened the scope of lawsuits against what are known as Medicare third-party defendants.

Globalization in recent decades, urged along by free trade agreements and World Bank loans to poor countries, has drastically widened the disparities between the first world and developing nations.

But the salvation of tennis in the United States will be using the public school system to drastically widen its talent pool.

"At the same time as the gap in earnings between the upper-middle class and the top percentile was drastically widening, it was becoming less likely that an upper-middle class earner could reach the top percentile within 10 years," he writes.

But over the last two decades, local officials essentially froze domestic gas prices at already low rates, drastically widening its price gap with its neighbors year-by-year.

Yet economists and wealth experts say the economic distance between 1-percenters in rich states and the 1-percenters in middling or even affluent states has widened drastically, creating a new national landscape of the 1percentt.

The big news, instead, is that Italian and Spanish spreads — the difference between interest rates on their bonds and interest rates on (presumably safe) German bonds — have widened drastically again.

Still, the ever-shifting rules, in which lists of accepted interrogation tactics were widened drastically before being reined in over 17 crucial months, helped foster a climate in which abuse could flourish.

North Korea's first leader, Kim Il Sung, died in July 1994, just days before the only other previously scheduled summit meeting between the two countries, and the gulf between the two countries widened drastically in the ensuing years.

Chon Chol Hwan, the bank's governor, said the main motive for the reduction was to reduce the shock of last week's events on an economy already slowing drastically because of widening slumps in the two largest markets for Korean products, Japan and the United States.