• Republican leaders added to the turmoil Friday morning, seizing on news of spiraling unemployment to warn that new taxes and regulations including in the sweeping reform measure would push the country into an economic abyss.

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  • Informal negotiations began on Capitol Hill to reconcile the House and Senate versions of legislation that will bring in the most sweeping reforms to financial regulation since the 1930s.

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  • He provided the perfect finish to a delightful Liverpool build-up in the fourth minute, sweeping in at the near post after Jermaine Pennant's neat flick set up Arbeloa for the cross.

    BBC: Liverpool 4-1 Arsenal

  • Within seconds, a great wave came rushing in to the shore, destroying everything that was lying in the way, and sweeping away everybody who was in the way.

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  • She ran so far ahead he almost lost her in the shifting sweeping curtains of gray water.

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  • If passed, the legislation could usher in the most sweeping changes in immigration law in nearly 30 years.

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  • They are different, deeper, bigger, hammered out on the anvil of forces, global in nature, sweeping the world.

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  • "All of a sudden, floods started carrying the vehicle and sweeping it in the (path) of the fast-moving floods over in a valley, " Dr. Ghassan Hamdan said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • In the spirit of openness now sweeping the country, officials acknowledge that the economy was in no shape, for instance, to prosper after Myanmar's planned entry into a single market among the ten-country Association of South-East Asian Nations in 2015.

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  • Now GM and Ford are in the midst of sweeping restructurings of their domestic auto operations.

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  • This had become explicit in the recent investigations sweeping through Wall Street.

    ECONOMIST: The rise of an American broking firm

  • Future ramifications, should Corbett and the state of Pennsylvania prevail, could be a rollback of NCAA power, at least in the broad, sweeping sense.

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  • An Ulster Unionist motion will be debated which urges the British Government to retain the RUC name and symbols and attempt to persuade it to postpone the sweeping reforms recommended in the Patten Report on future of policing.

    BBC: 'No NI progress for years'

  • Political instability, on display yesterday when the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, survived a challenge to her leadership, which turned out to not be a challenge at all, is just one tell-tale blowing in the negative winds sweeping across Australia.

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  • Another sound adds to the symphony of this landscape awakening from its slumber: the rhythmic sweeping of brooms in the courtyards of nearby dwellings.

    BBC: High spirits in Bali

  • He pulled hard on the restaurant door, forcing it open, and stumbled with his tattered flowers into the dark realm between the door and the velvet drapes that had been hung to keep the cold from sweeping in over diners at the front of the room.

    NEWYORKER: Another Manhattan

  • "In order to make sure that the economy continues to grow, people have to get around in this country, " said Rep. Dan Maffei, D-New York, who was not in Congress when lawmakers passed the sweeping forced spending cuts that took effect in March, and says they were a bad idea.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The Delaware fighter was finally undone by a sweeping left in the fifth, prompting referee Dave Parris to end the contest.

    BBC: SPORT | Boxing | Hatton sees off Stewart

  • One key reason for the slowdown in talks is the concern that a sweeping tax would adversely affect Europe's still-weak economy.

    WSJ: EU Likely to Weaken Proposed Transaction Tax

  • He is in charge of appointing the 15 members of an agency with sweeping authority over all transport projects in the metro area.

    ECONOMIST: Urban sprawl

  • The National Union (Republican) Party had won a sweeping victory in the 1864 elections on a platform that explicitly called for a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.

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  • Mr Rajaratnam, who is 53, is the central figure in a sweeping US government probe of insider trading at hedge funds, and the only defendant so far to go on trial.

    BBC: Galleon hedge fund boss 'wanted to conquer market'

  • Struggling American parts suppliers, such as Delphi, Visteon and Dana, are in the midst of a sweeping migration to greener pastures overseas.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The Dodd-Frank bill, named after its proponents in the Senate and House, is the most sweeping reform of Wall Street since the 1930s.

    FORBES: As Senate Passes Financial Reform, Wall Street Braces For What Comes Next

  • By the time they finished printing the series, the Pengo was finished and they were sweeping up banknotes in the street as trash.

    FORBES: Stage Already Set For Inflation

  • Germany is in the midst of a sweeping process of change.

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  • He demonstrated his willingness to make very hard choices in his negotiations with the Speaker of the House in pursuit of a sweeping so-called grand bargain that included -- had it come to fruition -- that included revenues, as well as entitlement reform.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • In chastising the way the investment banking industry works, the New York Attorney General who led the charge against the banks, called for a cultural reform and sweeping structural changes in the way the business operates.

    FORBES: Settlement Splurge

  • With the support of the NAACP, Republican Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia signed into law the most sweeping criminal justice reform legislation in the country.

    WHITEHOUSE: Toward a Smarter Drug Policy

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