Word: sifting
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...food restaurateurs are especially excited by m-commerce, which promises to inject more "fast" into their business while helping reduce employee theft and errors in making change. End-of-shift reconciliation is automatic, so there's no clumsy comparing of credit-card receipts with the register. "People can't sift through the trash and find your credit-card number," points out Joe Ely, technical officer for 2Scoot. "And they can't ring up $7 on the register, put $27 on the credit-card machine and pocket the $20." Installation of an RFID reader costs about $300--about half the cost...
...attempt to sift through current news about the flu and flu shots, TIME.com spoke with Dr. Jennifer Daly, clinical chief of infectious disease and immunology at the University of Massachusetts hospital and UMassMemorial Healthcare in Worcester...
...only because he needs to crack terrorist networks before they can strike again. He also needs to head off resistance from people across the political spectrum who think the Justice Department already has all the power it needs. The things that Ashcroft wants--expanded power to tap phones, sift through e-mail and detain or deport foreigners--don't just offend the A.C.L.U. Cynicism about government power is now the folk culture of the American right. In Congress, one of the first members to question Ashcroft's plans was Georgia's state-of-the-art conservative Representative Bob Barr...
...York officials said yesterday that 4,763 people are unaccounted for, and many fear that no one else will be found alive in the rubble. Rescue workers continuing to sift through the debris from the 110-story twin towers yester day, but found no survivors...
...that seems unlikely, if only for logistical reasons; lower Manhattan is still a disaster area, and the idea of a community of traders arriving at the New York Stock Exchange to take their usual place under the Big Board while rescue workers sift through the rubble for bodies is faintly ludicrous at this point...