18 NEW YORK/REGION 33-37 Plans to Rebuild Manhattan Expand to Entire Downtown Plans for the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, until now focused almost exclusively on the World Trade Center site, have for the first time expanded to encompass all of downtown.
"This is an extremely welcome announcement from Australia and for the first time expands international commitment beyond Europe," Ed Davey, the UK's energy and climate change minister, said.
Instead, Treasury will step up its program of injecting capital directly into banks and, for the first time, expand it to include financial companies that are not federally regulated banks or thrifts.
Hours before the Hezbollah attack on Wednesday, Israeli troops moved in force into central Gaza for the first time, expanding the operation intended to secure the release of the captured soldier there, Cpl.
About a month prior to the event, President Obama released a video in which he announced that the White House would, for the first time, expand the event beyond the children of White House employees and invite children in need from the community.
And Mr. Cuomo would, for the first time, expand the reach of the state's Freedom of Information Law by requiring the thousands of nonprofit organizations that house the bulk of those in state care to make abuse and neglect records public.
The SEC has concentrated on enforcing arcane rules concerning individuals' finances while failing, so far, to address the far more pressing "scope of service" issue.In this, the SEC is, by no means for the first time, expanding its jurisdiction to little benefit.
Yesterday, Twitter announced it would for the first time expand the character count on its service from 140 characters to 280 – double the usual length.
The agreement also allows Channel 4 to sell advertising around some non-Channel 4 content on YouTube for the first time, expanding the amount of inventory available to its sales team and bringing its considerable expertise in advertising around full length TV content to the YouTube platform.
Among the initiatives is live streaming competitions on Facebook for the first time, expanding beyond gamer-centric online outlets such as MLG.tv and Twitch.
