ECI implementations exist on a tier above the organization's existing software and provide wide-ranging search, indexing, and access functions.

Bankers Trust, the nation's seventh-largest banking company, said it would conduct a wide-ranging search for a successor.

Miles L. Marsh, the lead director, said the firm would conduct a wide-ranging search for chief executive, focusing on outside candidates.

In picking Mr. Zarrella, G.M. ended a wide-ranging search that lasted almost five months.

Time's brief said such an assertion did not allow Mr. Libby to conduct a wide-ranging search for potentially helpful evidence.

Police officials described a wide-ranging search for Mr. Gonzalez, who they said was thought to live in Jersey City.

Mr. Coulter conducted a wide-ranging search for a new retail banking chief.

Sometimes, of course, names are floated only to satisfy constituencies or sto demonstrate a more wide-ranging search than has actually taken place.

Microsoft has conducted a wide-ranging search since last November when Pete Higgins, a group vice president, stepped down to take a permanent leave of absence.

A wide-ranging search of Manhattan's 230 or so hotels uncovered places that are not only easy on the wallet but also clean, well maintained and even homey.