Word: gathering
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...tales to guide them, they will never be sure if they are on the right track. After all, the ultimate purpose of the canonical Bible is not to help us feel good in this life but to prepare us for what comes after. Therefore the Gnostic books will soon gather dust on the bookshelf, but they truly belong in the trash. John Bockman Tokyo...
...vials. Working with the Guangzhou CDC and the Shenzhen CDC, he paid $6 for each animal he tested to an animal trader who supplied Dongmen Market. In Guangzhou's Xinyuan Market, Yi would buy animals and haul them away in cages to the Guangzhou CDC labs, where he would gather samples before sending the creatures to be destroyed. Occasionally, when he was in a hurry, he would sedate the animal right there in the market, drawing blood and swabbing for feces...
...wondered from the first, if the President didn't know the questions to ask," O'Neill says in the book, "or if he did know and just not want to know the answers? Or did his strategy somehow involve never showing what he thought? But you can ask questions, gather information and not necessarily show your hand. It was strange." In larger meetings, Bush was similarly walled off. Describing top-level meetings, O'Neill tells Suskind that during the course of his two years the President was "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people...
...President was hard to read, the White House decision-making process was even more mysterious. Each time O'Neill tried to gather data, sift facts and insert them into the system for debate, he would find discussion sheared off before it could get going. He tried to build fiscal restraint into Bush's tax plan but was thwarted by those who believed, as he says, that "tax cuts were good at any cost." He was losing debates before they had begun. The President asked for a global-warming plan one minute and then while it was being formulated, announced that...
...Working with the Guangzhou CDC and the Shenzhen CDC, he paid $6 for each animal he would test to an animal trader who supplied Dongmen Market. In Guangzhou's Xinyuan Market, Yi would buy animals and haul them away in cages to the Guangzhou CDC labs, where he would gather samples before sending the creatures to be destroyed. Occasionally, when he was in a hurry, he would sedate the animal right there in the market and draw blood and swab for feces...