True, the technological revolution has repositioned moribund industrial neighborhoods into hubs of high-tech ingenuity and creativity, and low wage-paying jobs have been replaced by high-salaried ones, but there is an inherent dearth of socio-economic breadth in this new reality.
And that fact has bedeviled economists' attempts to figure out just how important a half century's worth of economic integration, in breadth and depth, has been to the European economy.
Ms. Lohneiss noted that her responsibilities in Riverhead included historic preservation and lower-cost housing as well as traditional economic development, a breadth of experience that she said would serve her well in the county post.
The question before Mr. Obama, aides say, is how to find someone who brings the breadth of economic knowledge of Mr. Summers, a former Treasury secretary and Harvard president, while at the same time reaching out broadly for new approaches.
But he also supported Buffett, saying, "Turning around California's economic crisis requires a breadth of knowledge and skill that Mr. Buffett obviously is as fully qualified as anyone on Earth to contribute".
First, the CHNS intentionally sampled the capital city and rural areas within each province to span the breadth of economic development within provinces and thus provides substantial variation across more- and less-urbanised areas.
The taxonomy of activities carried out in genomics firms captures the breadth of economic sectors and the mix of products and services enabled by genomic technologies, and categorization of firms gives a rough sense of how many firms engaged in those activities.
"One of the major challenges is around economic diversification – the depth and breadth of GDP," said Katherine Tweedie of Investec Investment Institute.
General Electric's earnings are viewed by some investors as an economic barometer because of the breadth of its businesses.
Mr. Renneisen said that the volunteers who run state pageants do not grasp the breadth of the economic measures the pageant must take to stay afloat and relevant.
After similar recent corruption scandals in a left-wing party, the news was a further sign of the political uncertainty in Italy today, which is marked by a growing divide between the political parties and the rest of society — under the shadow of an economic crisis whose depth and breadth Italians have only recently begun to grasp.
