Word: fathom
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...have been used to place you at a certain location if you happened to buy something there. But the quantity of that information and the complexity of its character has grown exponentially with the rapid adoption of technology into our society. Now it’s literally impossible to fathom the depth of personal detail available just waiting to be freed from some corporate hard drive by the master keys of the judicial branch...
...Australians to believe that his "ladder of opportunity" won't be erected at their expense. Although it's probably too late for people to get their heads around it, Latham's family and tax policy, released on Sept. 7, has many worthwhile features - and several that are hard to fathom. There's a mix of tax bribes to middle-income families as well as tax and welfare reforms designed to provide greater incentives to work. "Rewarding Hard Work," as the package is called, is a reasonable embodiment of Latham's "get off your behind" philosophy regarding the low-paid...
...last decade and the vast majority of donors suffer no bodily harm. But Visiting Professor of Public Policy and Women’s Studies lecturer Mary Ruggie warns, “there will be more legal and ethical issues that will come up that we can’t fathom...
...Crimson has gone from the ECAC’s most disappointing team to the squad no one wants to play. The Crimson dominated Vermont in the first round of the playoffs, out-scoring the Catamounts 8-3 in two relatively easy games. Watching that shellacking, it was hard to fathom that this was the same team that lost to Vermont just a month earlier...
...credibility of North Korean defectors and refugees is often questioned. Their stories are just too ghastly, too unreal. As Debra Liang-Fenton, executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, tells me, the degree of repression is “not something that anyone can fathom.” But we now have an immense body of evidence revealing the regime’s systematic methods of abuse—in light of which the documentary seems wholly plausible...