1.   THE recently expanded sales force met each other for the first time in September at their autumn sales meeting.

2.   Some Pentagon officials are skeptical that an expanded force is needed, but the Defense Department has not taken a formal position, officials say.

3.   Storage Dimensions blamed its third consecutive quarterly loss on continuing problems with its newly expanded sales force.

4.   The expanded sales force should help the company sign up more custom ers.

5.   The world got a chilling demonstration Thursday of why Afghanistan urgently needs an expanded international peacekeeping force.

6.   This work for expanded orchestral forces is rarely performed, and one could not honestly wish to hear it more often.

7.   U.S. State Department officials and British Foreign Office officials have said that Karzai has made a strong case for an expanded force.

8.   U.N. officials have been rebuffed by the United States and France after calling for an expanded international force to police major cities beyond Kabul, the capital.

9.   Alarmed by the worsening war in Bosnia, Western allies agreed to launch a worldwide search for contributions to finance an expanded U.N. peacekeeping force in the bloody Balkans.

10.   Brahimi did not make any proposal on the size of an expanded force, or suggest where it should be deployed.