Word: widely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bellies for the fall. "I have to go to Toronto because it defines the next six to eight months in movies," says Dave Poland, publisher of Movie City News, an industry news website that sees its heaviest traffic in Oscar prognosticating season. "It's the first opportunity to get wide-open access to all this stuff...
...positions on the subject of federal lobbyists. Edwards has never taken money from them, compares their contributions to bribes and has challenged the Democratic Party to stop taking them. Obama, who used to take lobbyist donations but no longer does, has refused to join Edwards' call for a party-wide freeze on lobbyist cash. The Edwards camp calls this proof that Obama is a creature of the system who doesn't want to alienate the insiders. (Obama says he has his own plan for reform, thank you.) Clinton does take money from federal lobbyists-some...
...resigned last year in connection with the affair; and criminal investigations into the collusion are continuing on both sides of the Atlantic. All this just as access to the transatlantic market out of Heathrow airport - currently restricted to BA and a few other carriers - is about to be blown wide open...
...With both supply and demand for illegal workers still going strong, this Administration will have a difficult time carrying out any wide-scale crackdown, even if the country were prepared to stomach many more family separations like Arellano's (Pew estimates that 3.1 million U.S. citizen children live in a household in which either the head of the family or their spouse is here illegally...
Until they win a change in sentencing guidelines, activists hope to win support for their cause simply by spreading the word. They hope a planned wide release of a documentary entitled Lockdown USA, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006, will help restart a push for reform. "The problem is that they are using a prison cell to address what should be public health issue," says Gabriel Sayegh, a project director at the Drug Policy Alliance. "This isn't the criminal justice system we're supposed to have in this country...