The sprawling investigation has extended to some of the entertainment industry's biggest names.

But the deal does not close the sprawling investigations into Columbia/HCA, some of which have lasted more than seven years.

Federal prosecutors are considering revoking the bail of a former stockbroker who helped them with a sprawling investigation into organized crime on Wall Street because they fear for his safety.

Titled "10,000 Lives", the 8th Gwangju Biennale in 2010 developed as a sprawling investigation of the relationships that bind people to images and images to people.

Already, one effect of the case has been to create a minor boom for criminal defense lawyers, whose services are being lined up by clients fearful that they may be engulfed in the sprawling investigations.

The sprawling investigation has generated enormous coverage by the news media.

Despite a sprawling investigation, law enforcement officials said they now believed that additional anthrax attacks were a certainty.

In the sprawling, multitiered investigation of A.I.G. and former top executives, he may be a source of trouble.

But the deal announced yesterday does not bring an end to the sprawling investigations into the health care company, some of which have lasted more than seven years.

The requests have mushroomed into one of the most sprawling Congressional investigations in recent times and could spill into next year.