Great deals on cheap international flights and train fares, along with a lots of newly refurbished and renovated hotels reflect an ambitious push for Bologna to be among Italy's first ports of call.

Beijing understandably sees a threat in an ambitious American push to create a missile shield that would exclude it while covering Japan and Taiwan.

Ana Botin also heads Santander's ambitious push into the highly profitable, if extremely competitive, world of investment banking.

The threat of higher prices and potential shortages has led to a showdown over the most ambitious push to expand domestic drilling since the 1970's.

An ambitious push spelled out in a June 2005 staff memo from Bill Keller, the executive editor, required reporters to explain why they had granted anonymity to each unnamed source.

But AT&T's move is the most ambitious push yet and one that will undoubtedly shake up the Internet industry.

Behind those efforts is the most ambitious push ever by the broadcast networks to brand themselves and many of the blocks of programming they offer - a marked departure from the past, when they would promote only specific shows.

Yet North Carolina Central is also engaged in an ambitious push to enhance its academics and campus.

In a new bid for growth, the Microsoft Corporation plans to announce today that it is making an ambitious push into the $13 billion-a-year market for business intelligence software.

More than two years after beginning an ambitious push into investment banking, HSBC is still struggling to win work as an adviser on big deals.