We did engage in very broad-ranging discussions as the changes may take place around the world.

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He started with 600 potential products, a long and broad-ranging list of companies he hoped would jump at the opportunity to feature in the movie.

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Huw Jones said the challenge facing the channel was to retain its aspirations of providing a broad-ranging service while focusing spending on programmes with the greatest possible impact.

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Part of the problem for Mr Prodi has been that he is head of a broad-ranging left-wing coalition that won the closest general election in Italy's tortured political history.

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The newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a wide-ranging mandate and broad powers for investigating and regulating things like checking accounts, credit cards, and education and home loans.

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Wide-ranging, flexible and broad learning, the kind we encourage in high-school and college, may actually be in tension with the ability to develop finely-honed, controlled, focused expertise in a particular skill, the kind of learning that once routinely took place in human societies.

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Mr Toledo's hopes are pinned on wide-ranging talks with opposition parties aimed at seeking broad policy consensus.

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Indeed, so broad did his interests become that in 2000 he was made a professor of Harvard University, with a free-ranging remit, only the fourth Harvard Business School faculty member ever to be so honoured.

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