Since Patagonia is already focused on high-quality goods, this new approach could lead to increased prices, a broadened customer base and expansion into new categories, he says.

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By recruiting outside advisers from far and wide, Mr Blair has broadened the base of his government, not only in terms of the policies they produce, but also in terms of the reciprocal loyalty he commands.

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But repairing our fiscal trouble requires more than vibrant growth even if he had successfully broadened the tax base.

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Orthodox taxation principles would suggest that the rate be cut and the base broadened to raise legitimacy and compliance.

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Yet both parties profess to believe that the tax code should be simplified and the base broadened, chiefly by eliminating most loopholes.

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Daniel Lurie, CEO and founder of Tipping Point, a San Francisco-based foundation working to reduce poverty in the Bay Area, says the nonprofit's user base has broadened significantly over its seven-year history.

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Even as changing times broadened the sport's base of paying customers from America's Eastern Seaboard, across North America and on to the other side of the Pacific, moving the business ahead has always been about one smart, overriding strategy--keeping the cartel going by squashing the competition in its tracks.

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But that is one of the many claims against Mr Ashcroft that has not been proven: Michael Ancram, the party chairman, credits him with having broadened the party's financial base.

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Miami has anyway in recent years broadened its Hispanic links, becoming a base for journalists and businessmen from other parts of Latin America.

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