Mr. Gore's appearance, which was sponsored by New York University College Democrats, a student organization, and MoveOn.org PAC, an offshoot of an online organization that has run advertisements criticizing the president and his administration, amounted to a broad-gauge attack on the man who defeated Mr. Gore in 2000.
In 2011, he and Udall warned cryptically that the government possessed a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act that amounted to a broader authorization for domestic surveillance than Congress approved.
With so many seasoned veterans, from Schlumberger, Shell and elsewhere on Transocean's board and its remuneration committee, the bonus decision amounts to a broad indictment of the energy industry's attitude.
The momentum toward what amounts to a broad Palin-loving subculture seceding from the union (in order to await "The End") and/or a time when the US government quits taxing us, is irrevocably prying loose a chunk of the American population from both sanity and their fellow citizens.
And Mr. Dee made it plain, in an article published June 4 in The New York Times, that his photo archive was not coming along, even though it amounted to an astonishingly broad and professional visual record of New York artists and galleries, beginning in the mid-1970s withethe sculptor George Segal.
Praising what it called his "great moral strength," the Norwegian Nobel Committee's citation amounted to a salute for an unusually broad contribution by Mr. Kim to "democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular".
Over the course of the early afternoon, they were treated to what amounted to a variety show on steroids -- broad comic bits, mixed with very earnest musical performances.
"This amounts to a much broader amnesty than the New York State Board of Regents wants to portray it," said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation of American Immigration Reform, which has called for reducing the levels of illegal immigration.
They amount to a broad grant of power in an area (national security) where the courts have traditionally given the President a relatively free hand.
