Since Mr. Spitzer sued Marsh on Oct. 14, his investigators have turned up evidence of deception and coercion at Aon, the second-largest broker, and attorneys general and insurance regulators in several states have widened investigations of the industry or started new ones.
In some places, the differential between in-state and out-of-state tuition has widened, but that can be something of a mixed curse: It encourages the universities to fill their classrooms with non-residents or foreign students, reducing access to the children of their own taxpayers.
Boys must be made to read at all costs because of the "achievement" gender gap, which "now exists in nearly every U.S. state and has widened to mammoth proportions — as much as 10 percentage points in some".
In an interview, he said the divide between those who say prominence should be given to international standards of human rights and those who hold to "more classic nation-state interests" has widened and sharpened.
Those fears are affirmed in the findings of the latest Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News polls of likely voters in both states, which show that Mr. Obama has widened his lead over Mr. Romney and is outperforming him on nearly every major campaign issue, even though about half said they were disappointed in Mr. Obama's presidency.
Even so, the gap between New York City and the average for the rest of the state has narrowed, while the city has widened the test-score gap over the state's other big urban school systems.
But it illustrates one reason why India's prospects are less bleak than they sometimes seem.The rich are getting richerCompetition between the states, especially since the 1991 reforms, has widened the already huge disparities between them.
New NSF survey finds that California has widened its lead over the rest of the country in state-by-state analysis of what companies spend on research.
Since then, the investigation has widened to include pension funds in other states.
Switzerland has widened its corruption probe into a Malaysian state-owned fund linked to prime minister Najib Razak, with two new suspects indicted over an alleged phony bond deal.
