Word: reach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kind of scary and depressing, and usually the people who read books like that are the ones who are already into that stuff [and want] to get more detail or affirmation for what they already believe and fear. I wanted to write a book that was going to reach a much wider audience...
...just one more level to be scared about, on top of the environmental thing. Nuclear destruction or being poisoned - one of our nuclear plants could just go kablooey because there are flaws in them. Pesticides, herbicides, all these different chemicals that we've [let loose] on the environment could reach some kind of critical mass...
...McColl and his two predecessors laid the groundwork, challenging interstate banking regulations to expand into a regional powerhouse in the Southeast and then on the West Coast, where it captured BofA in 1998 and hauled the name back to Charlotte. Since Lewis became CEO in 2001, the bank's reach has exploded in every direction. BofA is now No. 1 in deposits (with the $47 billion purchase of FleetBoston Bank), No. 1 in credit cards ($35 billion for MBNA) and No. 1 in wealth management ($3.3 billion for U.S. Trust), and with the Countrywide deal, it will soon...
...Brooklyn. But in recent years those neighborhoods, too, have been gentrifying, pushing the cultural workforce even further afield. And that art-world diaspora causes a more subtle disruption to the fabric of the creative economy. Creative people thrive on interaction. They need to be near one another to reach a kind of creative critical mass...
...with "high confidence" that Iran had shut down its nuclear weapons program back in 2003 made no difference to Washington's long-term assessment of the risk, Obering said Wednesday. Whether Iran has a nuclear weapons program or not, Obering said that Tehran is still rushing to extend the reach of its missiles. "They are developing ranges of missiles that go far beyond anything they would need in a regional fight, for example with Israel," he said. "Why are they developing missiles today that [could] reach Europe - the capitals of Europe - in a few years? Why? Are we going...