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...also began making plans to 'snatch' Osama from a foreign country ... [It] launched a secret program to harass his network ... The CIA would spot bin Laden operatives in foreign countries, then quietly enlist the local security service to arrest or deport them and allow the agency to sift through materials left in their apartments. In many cases, the CIA didn't know 'exactly what each person was doing,' says an intelligence official, 'just that he was doing something with a terror organization, so we should disrupt...
Since then, Albertson's and other big chains have publicly vowed to follow suit. Safeway, for instance, has gone dead net with a few vendors but admits that the evolution is slow because it takes so long to sift through years' worth of byzantine allowances in order to compute--and compare--dead net. "It's a little bit like translating some ancient scrolls that you might find in the Dead Sea that are in a language that you don't know," Burd told analysts. It's an honest--and stunning--admission that Safeway doesn't know what its true costs...
Lost amid all the white noise--much of it generated by two high-powered teams of talented defense lawyers--was damning evidence on a few specific charges. That, I realized, is why juries deliberate, to sift through mountains of evidence to find the facts. It was clear from the start of deliberations, more than two weeks ago, that this would be a difficult process. We were far from ready to vote on any of the charges (there were 24 against each defendant), but we went around the room that first day to express our general views. About half the panel...
...months since Raffeld’s departure, Rapier said that she and a number of other administrators had taken a relatively short time to sift through a small group of potential hires in order to select Abell...
...campaigns are organizing to quickly seize any opportunity for attack. On the first floor of the brick-and-glass office building where Bush forces are housed in Arlington, Va., a bank of TiVos captures Kerry's every word. A team arrives at 4:30 a.m. to sift through the papers and prepare responses before the sun rises. When Kerry unleashes even the mildest broadside, the young staff members go almost giddy, and a call issues: "Attack!" Comments from Kerry in the morning papers are incorporated into Bush's noon speeches...