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...streamlined because committee decisions would no longer be subject to wasteful and unnecessary parliamentary debate in the general council. In addition, the plan to give this new Grants Committee twice as many members would allow the committee to better handle the large number of grant proposals it has to sift through. Hopefully, this will also lead to more rapid and effective grant approval...
...unconquerable mixtape—have yielded to the power of the internet. Indie is no longer the realm of the snob and the obsessive. Eager kids with access to a computer can tap into the scene on their own with the assistance of websites like pitchforkmedia.com, which sift through the releases of obscure labels and make it all far more digestible...
Network executives insist there won't be a repeat of the 2000 debacle. "We're all agreed that the race is to be right, not first," says NBC News vice president Bill Wheatley. NBC will prevent analysts on its "decision desk," who will sift through the NEP data, from knowing the calls made by other networks. ABC News has a new policy of not calling a winner if the margin is less than 1%, even after all precincts have reported. CBS has moved its decision desk into the studio to give viewers a window into the process...
...other business, Adams and Student Affairs Committee Chairman Matthew J. Glazer ’06 introduced a temporary solution to help the Finance Committee (FiCom) sift through a slew of student group applications...
...nearly unmanageable even to the spammers that relied upon them. Surely the number of targets has more or less scaled with the size of the Internet itself, but as this makes spamming an increasingly lucrative practice, the net effect has been an ever-increasing density of trash to sift through...