Word: sifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important component of the review is the role that it will play in helping sift through the myriad requests for new funds likely to become available from the impending University-wide capital campaign--expected to aim for up to $2 billion...
This term, once again, there simply was not enough time for undergraduates to sift through the possible offerings. Although shopping period did include six class days with no major religious holidays, both students and professors seemed somewhat stymied by the timing. There were noticeable problems, as Tuesday/Thursday classes met only twice, some seminars did not meet until the day before study cards were due, and unequal demand led to the poorly-run lotteries...
...concrete plans for aid must wait until inventories have been taken and catalogues re-formed, Olmsted said. Since the fire, 15,000 Russians have volunteered to help dry waterlogged books and sift through the ashes for scraps of text...
...President's fate may now rest with a seven-member commission that has been poring over Waldheim's war record since September. Chaired by Hans Rudolf Kurz, a Swiss military historian, the panel has met for a week each month to sift 30 pounds of documents in the red silk-lined chambers of the Austrian State Archives. Scheduled to release its report on Feb. 2, the commission seems certain to go beyond the narrow question of whether Waldheim committed war crimes and to explore such issues as how much Waldheim knew and whether he acted to save lives...
...vital to continued progress in fast-changing fields like computers and lasers. But such openness provides the Soviets with valuable opportunities. For years, the large Soviet consulate in San Francisco has served as an intelligence center from which Moscow monitors Silicon Valley. Soviet agents routinely intercept scientists' telephone calls, sift through unclassified technical publications and, on occasion, plant moles in U.S. industries. For the most part, however, the transfer of technology takes place along quasi-normal lines: through firms in Europe, Japan or elsewhere that are used to transship the pilfered goods to Eastern Europe. For that reason, Western authorities...