But since then, the intelligence community's data-mining operations have grown enormously, according to industry and intelligence experts.
He said he was simply streamlining his New York operations, having grown tired of the grind of "day-to-day operations".
A second official said that as Mexican cartels extended their operations from Latin America to Africa, Europe and the Middle East, the reach of the operations had grown as well.
As waste operations have grown, so has the town's income from the landfill, to an estimated $1.8 million in 2003 from $330,000 in 1991.
Olympics security operations have grown beyond all recognition since 2000 because they have been shaped by new types of risk assessment.
As the regional carriers' operations have grown, some have moved into the group required to report statistics to the Transportation Department, among them Atlantic Southeast, ExpressJet, Comair, Mesa and SkyWest.
As those operations have grown, this city has seen its German population balloon to 2,000, or nearly 1 in 15 residents.
Unveiling the government's green paper on the future of the BBC on Thursday, the culture secretary, John Whittingdale, said the BBC's TV, radio and online operations had grown exponentially over the last decade and it was time to ask "whether this particular range of services best serves licence fee payers".
Starting with a transplant center in Palermo, Sicily, in 1999, the international operations have grown to include managing emergency services in Qatar, running a hospital in Dublin and two oncology centers elsewhere in Ireland, and helping to manage medical records for hospitals in England.
