Skilled workers, both men and women, entered the work force and the social and demographic profile of the city was broadened dramatically; between 1945 and 1980, Mostar's population grew from 18,000 to 100,000.

Working mothers are now the norm: the sphere of women's activity has broadened dramatically.

Overall school enrollments were larger than they had been in the 1970s, however, and, especially in the countryside, access to education had broadened dramatically.

Mr. Kabila's diplomatic effort comes when anti-Government guerrillas have dramatically broadened their campaign against him, grabbing control of several towns near Moanda, a seaport on the Atlantic coast.

Today, CORAL's mission of uniting communities to save coral reefs has dramatically broadened the scope of its work and has provided extensive opportunities to have an even greater impact around the globe.

The market has broadened dramatically, and we have had to respond to that.

"Nearly every patent that contains a combination of prior ideas is at risk because the court has dramatically broadened the standard of obviousness," said Cynthia Kernick, an intellectual property lawyer at Reed Smith in Pittsburgh.

What makes this a difficult task to accomplish is that every minute that passes after death, the range of time they can correctly estimate time of death is broadened dramatically.

Mr. Norton said the investigation was "broadened dramatically in the last few months."

In defending their role in helping a financially shaky savings and loan, five Senators appear to be offering a dramatically broadened definition of "constituent service."