Word: sifting
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...were everywhere to spread the word that Bush had given this question every last ounce of the consideration it deserved. "I think he just really took it seriously," says an Administration official involved in the decision. "He was bombarded from so many sides. I think he just had to sift and sift...
...solved the problem simply by turning it upside down. Rather than try to sift marbles through a screen too fine to let them through, Langer in effect wrapped the screen around the marbles, creating a three-dimensional matrix honeycombed with marble-size chutes and ladders that would allow his molecules to slowly work their way out. It was a breakthrough that ushered in a new generation of drug-delivery systems...
...evil is less abstract than David's. The Bible is replete with instances in which "Jesus may not be the author of evil, but He permitted it [for reasons of His own]," she notes. She recalls His telling Peter after the Last Supper that Satan has asked "to sift you like wheat," a metaphor suggesting agony...
...action, the mood is aggressively defensive. Following the WHO conference, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, which represents 18 carriers, held a closed-door meeting on DVT in Kuala Lumpur. Director general Richard Strickland cited a "wide gap" between anecdotes and the evidence and said the organization wants to "sift speculation and rumor from fact." Strickland stressed his members would follow the who's eventual recommendations. Until then, "our first priority is passenger well-being, our second is to prevent unnecessary alarm and vexatious litigation." Says AAPA spokesman Carlos Chua: "There is no definite correlation between DVT and flying...
Most brokerage account agreements require disputes to be settled through arbitration, and lots of distressed investors are doing so. The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), which handles 90% of arbitration cases, is hiring more staff to help sift through all the Internet rubble. During the past five months, new claims were up 27% over the same period last year. Securities attorney Jim Shapiro has landed 70 "slam-dunk" cases since running newspaper ads in March that asked, "Have you lost more than $100,000 in NASDAQ stocks?" His argument is simple: even if customers clamored for more tech, their...