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The Pentagon has also sharply expanded its intelligence work outside of war zones, sending Special Operations troops to embassies to gather information about militant networks.

"It's a terrible law, really disappointing," said Chief Jim Maher of the Escondido Police Department, who sharply expanded checkpoints after taking over the agency in 2006.

Liberal economists argued in response that a sharply expanded role for the federal government was a matter of survival in the "space age" and would even stimulate economic growth, military prowess, and social progress.

The Obama administration has sharply expanded the shadow war against terrorists, using both the military and the C.I.A. to track down and kill hundreds of them, in a dozen countries, on and off the battlefield.

PARIS — BAE Systems has topped the list of the world's biggest armaments companies, as the company, based in London, sharply expanded its sales of armored vehicles for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Swedish research institute said Monday.

At that time, the agency sharply expanded the number of heart patients who could get a device and started requiring doctors to fill out forms with detailed patient health data.

But he is sharply expanding the teaching fellows program to meet the 2003 deadline.

Still, the potential merger would sharply expand ICE, which despite its bigger market value is a smaller company.

Competing for companies and consumers seeking reliable weather information, commercial forecasters are sharply expanding the boundaries of their predictions.

Congress is moving toward passage of an education bill that would sharply expand federal involvement in local schools.

The latest investigation, by the international consortium, sharply expands the ranks of news organizations that have undertaken this kind of probe.