The agreement with Microsoft also includes a broad sharing of patents, I.B.M.'s first with a leading software publisher.

But it would end the system of ranking patients by how long they have been on the waiting list, a practice that has led to calls for broader sharing across the country.

He added: "Our goal isn't broader sharing.

In addition to forcing broader sharing, the rule gives the secretary of health and human services final authority over organ allocation policy, a provision the network had bitterly opposed.

This will require synergies that can be achieved through broad sharing of research efforts in a collaborative and cooperative research environment.

Metallic is a much broader sharing of electrons.

The governors called for national minimum standards to "encourage broader and more equitable sharing of risk."

Beginning in 1957, these conferences were planned to include non-classified sessions as well as classified sessions to enable broader sharing of biological safety information.

The report backs a Clinton Administration plan to force broader sharing.

The next step has to be a broader sharing of the risks of default - by the banks and some of the institutions that profit from loans.