But the final report of the Sept. 11 commission released last month said wide-scale reforms in intelligence-gathering and domestic protection were needed to predict and prevent another attack, and the White House and Congress are grappling with how that might be best accomplished.
Yet European officials say wide-scale surveillance operations on citizens and world leaders are harder to justify than monitoring of suspected al-Qaeda leaders.
Mr. Salas said the wide-scale use of that technology is about 10 years away.
Mario Coyula, Havana's director of urbanism and architecture in the 1970s and '80s, said that wide-scale buying and selling would lead to a "huge rearrangement" in Havana and other cities as the wealthy move to better areas.
The complexity of the project, and the myriad systems underlying emergency calls, has created a perception, the mayor's office said, of wide-scale problems that are in fact discrete issues, mostly unrelated to the upgrades.
"This is the first time in China that during an emergency incident officials have been dismissed for dereliction of duty on such a wide scale," said an unnamed leader of the Communist Party Organization Department, according to the report by the official New China News Agency.
"When it comes to cultural heritage, ISIS is persistently and consistently looting cultural heritage on a very wide scale," said al Azam, who formerly served as director of scientific and conservation laboratories at the General Department of Antiquities and Museums in Syria and now associates himself with the opposition.
PHOTOS: Faces to watch 2014 | Pop music & jazz "It's not a great strategy to try to dictate how people consume music when they're clearly asking for and in fact doing something different on a wide scale," said Spotify Chief Content Officer Ken Parks.
"Wow," Jones says, wide-eyed.
Until recently, big donors like the United States and Britain had opposed its use on a wide scale, saying it was too expensive, had not been tested enough on children and was not needed in areas where other malaria drugs still worked.
And for those worried about prying eyes: Slack says that, at a wide scale, they believe "there was no unauthorized access to any of your team data (such as messages or files)" — and if they find any evidence that a specific team/room/person was compromised, they'll contact them directly.
