Word: extract
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...Government Professor Gary King last year. King, who developed the technology with a team of researchers at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, said in an e-mail that the algorithm can can sort through thousands of blogs, books, articles and other sources of information in real time and extract a common opinion. In 2007, King founded Crimson Hexagon with Candace Fleming—a Harvard Business School graduate—and serves as its “Chief Scientist,” according to the company’s Web site. King said that the technology, referred...
...spend the first chunk of the $700 billion to maximum effect. He's looking at devices like a reverse auction, where holders of bad loans will compete to sell them to Treasury at the lowest cost to taxpayers. And he has to figure out how to extract from sellers not just complex debt vehicles like mortgage-backed securities but also plain old faltering home loans with local banks, without vacuuming up every loan in the country. If these approaches don't work, Kashkari and the rest of Paulson's team will need a Plan B. And fast...
This church (pictured above), near Megalopoli in Greece, used to be part of a village. By the time British photographer Stuart Franklin visited and took the picture in 2007, work crews had leveled the other buildings and scraped out the earth to extract lignite (brown coal), used to fuel a nearby power station. The crews were too superstitious to destroy a holy place, a guide told Franklin. Far above the new ground level, the edifice is now inaccessible...
...seems tremendously unfair that one can fly to Africa, study slavery for six weeks, and jet home. From a privileged vantage point, modern students are trying to extract the stories of people who weren’t allowed to speak. Unfortunately, at at every moment there is the constant reminder that their stories are up against an ocean crossing whose purpose was to deprive them of a history and rob them of a future...
...remains confirmed as human late last night by a pathologist and work has now become to extract the body," he said. "Due to its position, it will take some time to remove...