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We do have an underlying mission, and ours is to broaden the scope, widen the lens, if you will, in the critique and the evaluation of what excellence looks like. – Kyle Bowser	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I get we’re in the middle of a pandemic, and I get that people are going through financial crises you know with the wealth gap continuing to widen. But she wasn’t in there stealing necessities. She was trying to steal to get cute. – Akeem Diaz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think that we have to get to a space where athletes, where men in general and where parents, mentors, teachers... start to stretch and force and crack the idea of masculinity open, sports leagues have an opportunity and a responsibility to continue to widen our definitions of manhood, knowing that the more that they create spaces for people to be more themselves, the better player they'll actually be. – Wade Davis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The widening of The Suez Canal is a smart move, the question that I have is if you widen The Suez Canal, then will vessel operators make their vessels bigger ? – Sal Mercogliano	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The thing to monitor is how quickly Europe can get out the vaccine. If we see continued slowness there, you will see the gap widen between euro and dollar. – Justin Onuekwusi	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Consumer demand for plant-based products is large enough to make an impact in sales, as the plant-based alternative industry continues to grow, pepsiCo's decision to widen its existing selection of plant-based snacks will be a game changer in the long-term, as more consumers naturally gravitate towards the trend. – Ramsey Baghdadi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's a risk that as the job losses continue Larry Levitt will see that gap widen in health insurance coverage between the [ Medicaid ] expansion and non-expansion states. – Michael Karpman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If not contained and reversed, the downturn could further widen gaps in economic well-being that the long expansion had made some progress in closing. – Jerome Powell	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Given its price tag, (the iPhone SE) is unlikely to be that impactful for Apple's financials, but could help widen the installed base, which will be helpful long term for Apple's services revenue. – James Cordwell	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
That's the brilliance of Kelvin Droegemeier, to elicit this kind of input and turn to the academics in the first place, they're genuinely trying to widen their aperture for advice, and I think so far it's working. – Harvey Fineberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Which isn't a lot. But this primary is just getting started.Both of these things can't be trueTrump's main pitch for reelection is the economy and, while it hasn't lived up to his 2016 campaign promises, he put forward an extremely rosy outlook in his annual budget proposal, released Monday.Just as an example, read from CNN's story about the predicted deficits in Trump's budget compared to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.Both of these things cannot be true:CBO says budget will grow -- The deficit -- the gap between how much the government spends versus how much it takes in -- surpassed $1 trillion for the calendar year in 2019, marking the first time since 2012.That number is only expected to widen even further over the coming decade, reaching a total of $1.7 trillion in 2030, according to the latest projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released in late January.White House says budget will shrink -- That's a sharp contrast to the White House's latest blueprint, which projects that the deficit will shrink to $261 billion by 2030. The President's budget assumes that the economy will grow at around 3% annually during that period of time helping to narrow the gap. Those estimates are significantly higher than what most economists anticipated along with the Federal Reserve.Bonus: Read CNN reporter Donna Borak's piece on the White House plan for more tax cuts despite the deficits.Impeachment falloutGiuliani has a channel to Barr -- Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Rudy Giuliani is giving information regarding his Ukraine conspiracy theories to Attorney General William Barr through some sort of special channel Barr has set up. This is not surprising since Trump clearly lumps his lawyer and the attorney general together. He asked Ukraine's President to be in touch with both of them. But a back channel to the DOJ? This is, um, not how things are supposed to work, writes Elie Honig.Trump weaponizes the presidency -- Read this from Stephen Collinson: (Trump) is completing his project of fashioning the office around his own personality. It's unrestrained, unaccountable, often profane, impervious to outside influence and factual constraints of normal governance. The President has established dominance over his party, his Cabinet and his own media complex. He loosened Congress's constraints by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment probe. The result is that there are very few political constraints on his behavior left. – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Let's just not serve our kind, the fans, exactly the same thing that we had, let's just go further. Let's widen the world ; let's tell a much bigger story. – Louis Leterrier	Found on CNN 4 years ago
You need to widen the aperture of where you're looking. – Deb DeHaas	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Let’s be frank, Donald Trump would not be president, I don’t believe, without Jeff Sessions … And when Jeff Sessions stood up, Jeff Sessions gave Donald Trump the conservative credentials Jeff Sessions needed to widen Jeff Sessions base to a point where Jeff Sessions could win the presidency. – Trip Pittman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The average (price) growth of new homes in first-tier cities started to narrow, while it continued to widen in second- and third-tier. – Liu Jianwei	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We're interested in individuals, in details, in ordinary things to, hopefully, make something extra-ordinary of them, at least to widen the scope, but we're really staying with this suburban doctor who refuses to become richer by changing practice because she wants to stay where she is to find out the identity of The Unknown Girl. That's what we're interested in, the moral responsibility that Jenny feels. – Luc Dardenne	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It reflects concern about what's happening in the South China Sea and its need to restructure and re-arm, with a greater emphasis on greater naval and air capability, it wants to widen options available and have more choices in the international market place in terms of range of technology and its negotiating position. – Tim Huxley	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Commodities are likely to drive the pullback in equities today, with materials and energy stocks in for a difficult session, we will quite likely see credit spreads widen again today, as the oil price has been a major driver for high yield credit. – Angus Nicholson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Market competition in the first half of the year was quite intense and it is expected that sector losses will widen further. – Anhui Conch	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Academy has no power over Hollywood. We have nothing to do with hiring, what we can do, however, is to get them to widen their normal stream of thought. – Ava DuVernay	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Spreads in investment-grade will probably widen, but it will be relatively limited in comparison to high yield. – Oleg Melentyev	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are proposals to widen the powers of the intelligence services and law enforcement agencies and to toughen criminal responsibility not only for terrorist activity but for anyone who supports it morally, financially or with information. – Valentina Matviyenko	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our goal is to widen the circle of shareholders, with a focus on Spain, Italy and France. – Torsten Hinrichs	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The deal is so big that there are not enough arbitragers that can keep the spread in a tight ranges, i don't think anyone wants to go into the arbitrage too big so the spread could widen further. – Niels Lammerts van Bueren	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

We do have an underlying mission, and ours is to broaden the scope, widen the lens, if you will, in the critique and the evaluation of what excellence looks like.

– Kyle Bowser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I get we’re in the middle of a pandemic, and I get that people are going through financial crises you know with the wealth gap continuing to widen. But she wasn’t in there stealing necessities. She was trying to steal to get cute.

– Akeem Diaz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that we have to get to a space where athletes, where men in general and where parents, mentors, teachers... start to stretch and force and crack the idea of masculinity open, sports leagues have an opportunity and a responsibility to continue to widen our definitions of manhood, knowing that the more that they create spaces for people to be more themselves, the better player they'll actually be.

– Wade Davis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The widening of The Suez Canal is a smart move, the question that I have is if you widen The Suez Canal, then will vessel operators make their vessels bigger ?

– Sal Mercogliano

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The thing to monitor is how quickly Europe can get out the vaccine. If we see continued slowness there, you will see the gap widen between euro and dollar.

– Justin Onuekwusi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Consumer demand for plant-based products is large enough to make an impact in sales, as the plant-based alternative industry continues to grow, pepsiCo's decision to widen its existing selection of plant-based snacks will be a game changer in the long-term, as more consumers naturally gravitate towards the trend.

– Ramsey Baghdadi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's a risk that as the job losses continue Larry Levitt will see that gap widen in health insurance coverage between the [ Medicaid ] expansion and non-expansion states.

– Michael Karpman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If not contained and reversed, the downturn could further widen gaps in economic well-being that the long expansion had made some progress in closing.

– Jerome Powell

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Given its price tag, (the iPhone SE) is unlikely to be that impactful for Apple's financials, but could help widen the installed base, which will be helpful long term for Apple's services revenue.

– James Cordwell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That's the brilliance of Kelvin Droegemeier, to elicit this kind of input and turn to the academics in the first place, they're genuinely trying to widen their aperture for advice, and I think so far it's working.

– Harvey Fineberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Which isn't a lot. But this primary is just getting started.Both of these things can't be trueTrump's main pitch for reelection is the economy and, while it hasn't lived up to his 2016 campaign promises, he put forward an extremely rosy outlook in his annual budget proposal, released Monday.Just as an example, read from CNN's story about the predicted deficits in Trump's budget compared to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.Both of these things cannot be true:CBO says budget will grow -- The deficit -- the gap between how much the government spends versus how much it takes in -- surpassed $1 trillion for the calendar year in 2019, marking the first time since 2012.That number is only expected to widen even further over the coming decade, reaching a total of $1.7 trillion in 2030, according to the latest projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released in late January.White House says budget will shrink -- That's a sharp contrast to the White House's latest blueprint, which projects that the deficit will shrink to $261 billion by 2030. The President's budget assumes that the economy will grow at around 3% annually during that period of time helping to narrow the gap. Those estimates are significantly higher than what most economists anticipated along with the Federal Reserve.Bonus: Read CNN reporter Donna Borak's piece on the White House plan for more tax cuts despite the deficits.Impeachment falloutGiuliani has a channel to Barr -- Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Rudy Giuliani is giving information regarding his Ukraine conspiracy theories to Attorney General William Barr through some sort of special channel Barr has set up. This is not surprising since Trump clearly lumps his lawyer and the attorney general together. He asked Ukraine's President to be in touch with both of them. But a back channel to the DOJ? This is, um, not how things are supposed to work, writes Elie Honig.Trump weaponizes the presidency -- Read this from Stephen Collinson: (Trump) is completing his project of fashioning the office around his own personality. It's unrestrained, unaccountable, often profane, impervious to outside influence and factual constraints of normal governance. The President has established dominance over his party, his Cabinet and his own media complex. He loosened Congress's constraints by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment probe. The result is that there are very few political constraints on his behavior left.

– Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Let's just not serve our kind, the fans, exactly the same thing that we had, let's just go further. Let's widen the world ; let's tell a much bigger story.

– Louis Leterrier

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You need to widen the aperture of where you're looking.

– Deb DeHaas

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Let’s be frank, Donald Trump would not be president, I don’t believe, without Jeff Sessions … And when Jeff Sessions stood up, Jeff Sessions gave Donald Trump the conservative credentials Jeff Sessions needed to widen Jeff Sessions base to a point where Jeff Sessions could win the presidency.

– Trip Pittman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The average (price) growth of new homes in first-tier cities started to narrow, while it continued to widen in second- and third-tier.

– Liu Jianwei

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We're interested in individuals, in details, in ordinary things to, hopefully, make something extra-ordinary of them, at least to widen the scope, but we're really staying with this suburban doctor who refuses to become richer by changing practice because she wants to stay where she is to find out the identity of The Unknown Girl. That's what we're interested in, the moral responsibility that Jenny feels.

– Luc Dardenne

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It reflects concern about what's happening in the South China Sea and its need to restructure and re-arm, with a greater emphasis on greater naval and air capability, it wants to widen options available and have more choices in the international market place in terms of range of technology and its negotiating position.

– Tim Huxley

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Commodities are likely to drive the pullback in equities today, with materials and energy stocks in for a difficult session, we will quite likely see credit spreads widen again today, as the oil price has been a major driver for high yield credit.

– Angus Nicholson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Market competition in the first half of the year was quite intense and it is expected that sector losses will widen further.

– Anhui Conch

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Academy has no power over Hollywood. We have nothing to do with hiring, what we can do, however, is to get them to widen their normal stream of thought.

– Ava DuVernay

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Spreads in investment-grade will probably widen, but it will be relatively limited in comparison to high yield.

– Oleg Melentyev

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are proposals to widen the powers of the intelligence services and law enforcement agencies and to toughen criminal responsibility not only for terrorist activity but for anyone who supports it morally, financially or with information.

– Valentina Matviyenko

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our goal is to widen the circle of shareholders, with a focus on Spain, Italy and France.

– Torsten Hinrichs

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The deal is so big that there are not enough arbitragers that can keep the spread in a tight ranges, i don't think anyone wants to go into the arbitrage too big so the spread could widen further.

– Niels Lammerts van Bueren

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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