As the nation's largest banks stay stingy with credit and a growing portion of the population has no bank at all, major retailers are stepping into the void.
With traditional lenders still avoiding risky borrowers in the wake of the financial crisis, hedge funds and other opportunistic investors are stepping into the void.
Sen. Jim Webb, a Democrat of Virginia, is now courageously stepping into the void, calling for a national commission to re-assess criminal justice policy.
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As the traditional over-the-air networks scale back their coverage, with some promising only an hour of prime-time convention news each night, cable networks and Web sites are stepping into the void with wall-to-wall plans.
Yet, like Warren and Sanders, he has little sympathy for Wall Street (for years, he's made an issue of income inequality), and he showed an early willingness to take on such issues as mass incarceration — "courageously stepping into the void, calling for a national commission to re-assess criminal justice policy," as a Times editorial put it in 2008.
Yet, like Warren and Sanders, he has little sympathy for Wall Street (for years, he's made an issue of income inequality), and he showed an early willingness to take on such issues as mass incarceration—"courageously stepping into the void, calling for a national commission to re-assess criminal justice policy," as a Times editorial put it in 2008.
Just a year ago China appeared to be upending the decades-old order in Africa, stepping into the void left by large Western companies too timid to invest in the continent's resource-rich but fragile states as the market for copper, tin, oil and timber soared to new heights.
A new wave of Christian churches which have been demonized by some as religious cults are stepping into the void.
In terms of invention and adventure and stepping into the void in the hope of finding something wonderful, Jerry was a master.
