Nearly a dozen people with party ties, speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, confirmed the wiretapping, as well as a widespread program of bugging across Chongqing.
During the last decade, karyotype studies and gene expression profiling have identified robust prognostic markers as well as a widespread genomic landscape.
Political analysts said the newly pervasive voter-registration drives reflected lessons from the 2000 election, which showed that a few votes can decide large events, as well as a widespread sense that the coming election holds especially high stakes.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 caused a wave of "refugee" former slaves escaping the northern states into Canada, as well as a widespread crisis over violent rescues of fugitive slaves.
Public disagreement between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats at the heart of the coalition government, as well as a widespread belief among Tory MPs that Lib Dems are steering the ship, has made dissent seem more acceptable.
It also found a big increase in the sense of personal safety among people in the West Bank, something Mr. Abbas's security forces have been fostering, as well as a widespread belief that American involvement in peace talks would bring results.
A number of stigmas have plagued the upland peoples, including a history of growing opium poppies and engaging in swidden (slash-and-burn) agriculture both banned in the 1950s as well as a widespread inability or failure to obtain national identification cards.
The reasons for the problems in China's health care system are, by now, well known: a widespread lack of trust in doctors and hospital administrators, the high cost of care, long waiting times and short appointments — and corruption, at every level.
Is this a truly widespread problem, or did just a few users win the Unlucky Lottery? (History says this could well be a widespread problem).
In contrast, on the Nasdaq exchange, stock prices were driven almost exclusively by profit taking in software giant Microsoft and chipmaker Intel as well as a widespread correction among high-flying Internet stocks such as online bookseller Amazon.com and leading Internet portal Yahoo!
