Yet, when the transfer happened, back in July 1996, it always seemed too soon, that Shearer should not be making this sentimental move at the age of 25, that he should be off broadening his experience at Juventus or Manchester United.
"Stryker started out showing rural poverty to well-off urban people but broadened the file to include the middle-class and even farmers faring well".
Off screen, he broadens the comparison.
When the NHS came into being, he was quick off the mark, broadening the leasing of his London estate in case the medical men hit hard times.
Ever since the late 1960's, when Richard Nixon and his political advisers devised the "Southern strategy" in an effort to head off George Wallace while broadening the party's reach, the Republicans have talked nobly about civil rights in the North while playing to racial division in the South to lure white voters from the Democratic Party.
The drop-off in Western Wireless stock broadened to more than 60% on Jan . 28 when AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless, a joint venture of BellSouth and SBC Communications, announced plans to build and expand their voice and data network in Midwestern and Western states.
But even though Wallace may have foresworn mathematics, he never cast off the broadening spirit of the discipline.
See articleIn an effort to stave off the broadening panic, America's Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point, to 3.5%, the biggest single cut in a quarter of a century.
Since the award-winning space drama went off the air five years ago, Syfy has broadened its portfolio, dabbling in paranormal reality shows and the campy TV movie "Sharknado".
Gone is the double-ended lozenge of the past, replaced by a machine with broadened haunches and squared-off lines.
