Gov. David A. Paterson said on Sunday that he would give Andrew M. Cuomo, the state's attorney general, broad powers to investigate the Long Island Rail Road as part of a wide-ranging review his administration would seek of how disability and pension benefits were potentially manipulated by L.I.R.R. supervisors, workers and retirees.
"This is going to be a broad and wide-ranging effort," a senior administration official said.
Secretary Powell spent a good part of a wide-ranging interview defending the administration's frustrated attempts over the course of a year to achieve a cease-fire and resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The death of the four Americans — the yacht's owners, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, Calif., and two crew members, Phyllis Macay and Robert A. Riggle of Seattle — is certain to add momentum to a wide-ranging review the Obama administration is conducting on how to combat the growing threat from bands of Somali pirates.
The Chinese version of a document he had signed the year before had given Jun Li, the center's deputy director for administration, wide-ranging authority to spend Leonhardt's funding on equipment whenever he was away from Guangzhou.
The Esher Report called for wide-ranging reforms in the administration of the Army and the War Office, whilst the Norfolk Commission, which had studied the auxiliary forces, declared them "unfit for service" and recommended various practical reforms alongside the much more sensational suggestion of universal military service.
North Korea was startled, he said, by the Bush administration's hostility toward it from the start, when the administration shut down wide-ranging bilateral talks begun during the Clinton administration.
This granted cities and regencies (the level of administration below provinces) wide-ranging authority over all areas of government apart from monetary affairs, foreign relations, justice, religion, and security and defence.
It was put on hold in 2014 after the Obama administration imposed wide-ranging sanctions against Russia.
There has been a wide-ranging debate inside Obama's administration on how to engage with Russia, after the disastrous Bush years.
