On the same day, Dec. 21, the panel also voted for a sweeping expansion of the Carnegie Hill Historic District on the Upper East Side.

Rather than create schools within schools, New York is creating more than 30 entirely new, independent, small high schools in its most sweeping expansion of high schools in decades.

IN the wake of Sept. 11, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art set aside plans to announce a sweeping expansion of its space.

Predicting an era of sweeping economic expansion, the plan called for commuter parkways, interstate expressways and new rail services to connect New York City to its rapidly growing suburbs.

Finally, Democratic presidential candidates and many Democratic lawmakers are calling for a more sweeping expansion of government-financed health care.

In only four days, Mayor David N. Dinkins gave the city's teachers a 5.5-percent pay increase, proposed a sweeping expansion of the police force and then said he was considering 15,000 layoffs.

Would we have rushed blindly this year into the most sweeping, disruptive and dangerous expansion of Government in our history by adopting President Clinton's health care plan?

But Democrats considered 1992 to be a mandate to embark on a sweeping expansion of benefits for "the forgotten middle class" - remember the Health Security Act of 1994?

As chairman and chief executive, Mr. Metcalf oversaw a sweeping expansion of Sears stores.

The agreement clears the way for final passage of the most sweeping expansion of Medicare in its 23-year history.