Hiring was spread broadly, with manufacturing, retail, health care, and leisure and hospitality industries all expanding.
In Singapore, now richer than Japan, social protection is spread broadly but thinly, the index shows.
The compromise limits such exceptions to health "crises," defined as AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and diseases likely to spread broadly.
The wrongdoing spread broadly, authorities say, noting that Royal Bank of Scotland "aided and abetted" UBS and other firms.
The new jobs were spread broadly across industries, with transportation and warehousing, retail, manufacturing and restaurants all adding jobs.
The layoffs will be spread broadly across the United States sales force, including both field representatives and managers, not confined to any geographic area or category of drugs.
But Larry Irving, a former senior technology policy official in the Clinton administration, expects the burden of paying for the needed investment will likely be spread broadly.
The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, rightly argues that these are important instruments, making credit more available and allowing risk to be spread broadly.
The best guess is that the pain was spread broadly across the financial system, with no single big institution bearing a dangerously large share of the burden.
