Despite attempts to characterize this Order as limited to the specific facts of Pulver.com's FWD, I am concerned that the decision speaks much more expansively.

For 90 minutes, the investor, Edward S. Lampert, left, the normally reclusive chairman of Sears Holding, spoke expansively about the need to change attitudes and work habits at the merged company.

But on the question of affirmative action, which touches many programs her department oversees, Ms. Chao speaks comfortably and expansively.

He clapped Williams on the back and spoke expansively, like a Roman senator putting forward declarations for an attentive senate, striding toward the arrival pads as he spoke.

He would speak expansively about his favorite companies, taking 20 minutes to get through all his points.

He spoke expansively of the Supreme Court's role in furthering affirmative action programs to help minorities overcome past discrimination.

Lemieux spoke expansively about home and family life, including his own childhood in Mont-Laurier, a small town three hours outside of Montreal.

He now speaks expansively of ending the century as it began, with a burst of T. R.-style progressivism.

At her confirmation hearings, aides say, they do not expect her to abandon her longstanding pledge of confidentiality of past advice, but she will speak expansively of her goals.

Only a month ago, Walter Isaacson, the new chairman of CNN, spoke expansively about the need to broaden the definition of news.