Word: fathoming
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What is harder to fathom is why this is happening again. After all, there have been supply problems with flu vaccines for each of the past four years. Several government and academic reports have addressed the issue since 2000, when manufacturing glitches resulted in an almost two-month-long delay in shipments of vaccine. And although the problems have come to a head in the past few years, their roots go back at least two decades. "A lot of people have been asleep at the wheel," says Dr. Frank Sloan, director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management...
...clearly the heir of a millenniums-long search for the wellsprings of spirituality. People have been wrestling with the roots of faith since faith itself was first codified into Scripture. "[God has] set eternity in the hearts of men," says the Book of Ecclesiastes, "yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning...
...really cannot fathom that my mother thinks I’ll be able to carry on a coherent conversation at midnight on a Friday night...
...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...