Word: extract
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...stock. Despite the fact that Siemens virtually paid BenQ to take the troubled phone unit off its hands, Lee says he is "confident [BenQ] can turn around the operation." He plans to add handsets with fresher designs and more features, and use his new leverage in the industry to extract better deals from component suppliers. But cutting costs quickly will be tough. BenQ promised to keep a German factory employing 2,000 highly paid workers open at least until...
When they rejoined their advisers after an hour, the two sides were once again bedeviled by Star Wars. Hoping that he might use the enticement of large cuts in offensive weapons to extract a concession from Reagan on Star Wars, Gorbachev declared, "Something has to be done about SDI before we can get to the subject of reductions." Reagan was not buying. "SDI," he countered, "is long term enough that it ought not to be the thing to make strategic-missile reductions impossible now. Can we afford to let this moment go by when both of us are talking about...
...reads like a night watchman's diary. It is a sometimes shocking and often mundane hour-by-hour, even minute-by-minute account of a campaign to extract information. The log records every time al-Qahtani eats, sleeps, exercises or goes to the bathroom and every time he complies with or refuses his interrogators' requests. The detainee's physical condition is frequently checked by medical corpsmen--sometimes as often as three times a day-- which indicates either spectacular concern about al-Qahtani's health or persistent worry about just how much stress he can take. Although the log does...
...leading to a revolution in the way those in the Literature Department think about thinking about thinking about literature. Their counterparts in the Department of English and American Literature and Language will perform “close readings” of texts in a vague attempt to extract meaning from obviously significant textual minutiae, such as the prominent use of the definite article...
...things that’s important to realize is that every competition design goes through typically a huge evolution. You have to extract an idea and make it clear. So the design that resulted from the competition by Arad and Walker is a very strong design, but part of our job is to deal with all the issues, to build it and to make it work,” Bond says...