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...enduring belief that it must stay in the forefront of changes in media has driven its growth. The Beeb ballooned in the 1990s, adding staff and diversifying its operations and output. In came the rolling news service BBC News 24, along with a commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. In the drive for ratings, nobody stopped to ask if the corporation could sustain such growth or stretch itself in so many directions...
...person who has had the biggest effect on the world over the past year is Al Gore. He brought the issue of global warming to the forefront and engaged many different people demographically and professionally. He has single-handedly taken this from somewhat of a fad of the year to the most important global crisis that's facing us today and in which almost everyone is a believer...
...Madrid train bombings. The Court’s controversial and much-publicized verdict—it convicted only three of the 29 defendants of mass murder—brought the 2004 bombings and Spain’s subsequent withdrawal of its approximately 1,300 troops from Iraq to the forefront of many Spaniards’ minds. A week later, U.S. newspapers pointed out that 2007 has been the U.S.’s deadliest year in Iraq. Conversation here in Granada, particularly when walking past newspaper stands, frequently turned to the Iraq War. When Spain reacted to the Madrid bombings...
...cars to venture out into ever-wider landscapes, their restaurant portions are often twice as large as their European counterparts. But amidst this expansion of expansion—and the brashness that often accompanies it—there is a counterculture that races to embrace all things small.At the forefront of the miniaturization are “twee” kids, so called for the ironically childish British pronunciation of the word “sweet.” Twee is most commonly understood as a genre of music that encompasses college favorites like Belle and Sebastian...
...Obviously Google is a forefront company at the leading edge of science and technology in the country,” he said...