In other fallout from the Enron collapse, a Senate committee approved pension legislation intended to diversify workers' retirement accounts.
One, he said, advocates reforms intended to diversify the economy and wean it from oil dependence while opening the political system to competition.
But in a statement last Friday, Mr. Mozilo said that his trading plan, intended to diversify his holdings, forced him to sell.
The seven-star hotels, artificial palm islands, cavernous malls and mega-airports are all intended to diversify it away from oil dependence.
If you want to venture a little off the beaten track, the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail comprises 468 holes spread across 11 golf resorts throughout Alabama, part of a scheme originally intended to diversify the assets of the State's pension funds.
"We are seeing the market opening to non-Islamic issuers who are intending to diversify their funding access and investor base, in Europe and even the U.S.," said Emmanuel Volland, a senior director at Standard & Poor's based in Paris.
The deal for About.com was also intended to diversify the company's Internet advertising base, in that case by adding a business with "cost per click" advertising, in which advertisers pay when a reader clicks on an ad.
The purchase of the division, which is based in Chicago and is a unit of Invensys, is intended to diversify Flowserve's customer and revenue base, company officials said yesterday.
If you dodge the skateboarders on their way down, the broad slope provides a safe walkway up to the newest buildings of Sheffield Hallam University, the Winter Garden complex, and the headquarters of the Digital Campus, intended to diversify the city further out of steel.
In November, Boone Isaacs announced a new initiative, called A2020, intended to diversify the staff of the organization.
In addition to touring with Primus and Deftones, Limp Bizkit headlined the Ladies Night in Cambodia club tour, which was intended to diversify the band's fanbase, which was largely male, by offering free tickets to female attendees.
