In recent years Western socialists have formulated wide-ranging proposals for socialist economic organization in which markets play a key role.

The wide-ranging proposal, to be announced Thursday, is a bid not only to change American education but also to seize the Democrats' best political issue.

But Senator Reid's initiative could be just as effective, provided no loopholes creep in as the Senate takes up wide-ranging proposals for ethics reform.

But they cautioned that they were studying the matter, and that no wide-ranging proposals had been written.

Mr Michael Portillo, the transport minister, is reportedly sympathetic to the wide-ranging proposals, but doubts exist over whether they will be carried through.

This means talking about everything, in other words, putting forward a very wide-ranging proposal.

We also insist that there should be a wide-ranging and coherent proposal; we do not want to have to choose between a selection of sample proposals.

We all know that it is a very wide-ranging proposal that covers a large variety of issues of great interest to the professions and also more generally.

If that call is heeded and kept, as we hope, it will have to be followed by a wide-ranging political proposal.

Therefore, the third energy package makes wide-ranging proposals to remedy those structural problems, in particular by proposing ownership unbundling of the transmission system operators.