Word: gleaning
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...journalists only with the Attorney General's approval and only after other investigative means have been exhausted. That's not to say it doesn't occasionally happen. In 2001 the Justice Department subpoenaed AP reporter John Solomon's home-telephone records without his knowledge in an effort to glean his sources in a case involving former Senator Robert Torricelli. Other attempts to discover journalists' sources have tended to fizzle because news organizations are willing to take the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court and have a body of case law behind them...
...University for the first time moving toward common training in the life sciences,” he said, adding that he hoped future students of the field would be able to glean “not the best that one [school] can offer, but the best that the University can offer...
...they will attack, as four footsoldiers with scarves round their faces listen. They discuss breaking into three groups. First, a machine gun is to engage the Americans. The attackers' mortar will then start hitting the ammo storage. In the light of the explosions, the Iraqi resistance fighters hope to glean the number of vehicles the Americans possess - and clarify targets for further RPG and mortar attacks...
...finally, is a chance to explore the social and cultural setting that produced not only Saddam, but also one of the Arab world?s greatest heroes, Salahuddin - or, as the Crusaders knew him, Saladin. Here?s a chance to chat with members of Saddam?s own tribe, and to glean from them some clues as to how his mind works...
...play shots and do things that some of the college players won’t do,” Storch said. “So they’ll give you a bit of a different look. It’s those sort of matches that you can glean things from...