Others fragment, never able to maintain contact among their far-flung branches.

In that campaign, still continuing in far-flung local branches, party and government officials have been required to spend weeks at a time studying Deng and Jiang speeches and engaging in self-criticism.

But integrating the operations of these far-flung branches has hurt the company's profitability.

The concert at the Beacon Theater on Wednesday night brought together two musicians from far-flung branches of Spain's musical legacy.

Information collected for this project, including photos and family legends, is being shared with far-flung branches of the family.

Perhaps we are just one more far-flung branch of a faraway family, possessed of American idiosyncrasies but firmly related to others by blood.

Humanities nerds and those trying to document far-flung branches of their family tree will have a field day at this research library.

Harzing's spiders weave the informal communication networks so important in connecting far-flung branches, subsidiaries and all strategic partners.

The role model for many banks is no longer the far-flung Citibank, but the neighborhood branches of Banc One.

Mr. Krens has taken the Guggenheim into a vigorous expansionist phase, adding far-flung branches to its core location on Fifth Avenue at 89th Street.