Word: pored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duffy, Novak and Weisskopf labored almost fulltime last year at the nexus of big money and politics. This was often lonely work, requiring them to pore for days at a time over cartons of Federal Election Commission and court documents, to wheedle information from reluctant sources a sentence at a time. Their persistence paid off in three dozen pathbreaking stories on campaign finance in 1997, many of which were picked up and credited by major newspapers and TV news shows...
Familiarity also breeds affection. The aliens still have pretty teeth, ooze slime from every pore and maintain their relentlessly hostile attitude toward all things human. But by now--Alien Resurrection is their fourth screen appearance--there's something funny about their reliable malevolence. It's sort of like Mr. Magoo's nearsightedness; you await its inevitably disastrous consequences with high comic anticipation...
...that the place was crawling with agents, you were directed to wait your turn in a row of empty chairs. When your name was called, you were passed through a metal detector and ferried upstairs to an undecorated 6-by-6 cubicle. There you met the agent who would pore over dot-matrix printouts of your financial woes...
...lawyers specializing in fraud has begun to investigate what's killing people in the state's 1,400 nursing homes. In Washington, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate's Special Committee on Aging, last week dispatched three investigators from the General Accounting Office to California to pore over data, confer with state officials and visit suspect nursing homes. One of their first stops was Creekside (now operating as Vacaville Rehabilitation and Care Center), which denied the investigators access to medical records--until they returned with a subpoena. Grassley calls the California data "troubling" and says the situation...
...puts the fingers on the mice. A new generation of the AOL software, due later this fall, has been relentlessly tested by potential users--self-confessed computer idiots all. Case's target audience said they wanted the Net organized and edited for them. Who, after all, has time to pore over 10,000 pages in search of just the right nuggets of data? So AOL's new interface offers a nearly seamless link between the Web and AOL. Everything is as neatly organized as a small-town library. AOL has put a frame around the chaotic tumble of the Internet...