Word: sifting
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...says, ". . . there are times when everyone feels inundated with news. What is hard to find in the is understanding. . . . The problem of most readers is to find their way through the sheer bulk. . . . In a weekly newspaper the news does not come in bits and pieces. . . . This time to sift the news, to put it in perspective, to present it in a manageable package, has always been the great advantage of the weekly paper...
...cannot doubt," said William Ewart Gladstone in 1845, "that a decimal system of coinage would be of universal advantage in monetary transactions." Nonetheless, Gladstone warned against "any decisive step" until "the subject has been thoroughly sifted and is well understood by the public." Last week Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd announced that the government is appointing a new committee (the sixth since 1824) to sift the practical problems of currency reform. If they do not prove overwhelming, promised Lloyd, the government will definitely adopt a decimalized currency-possibly...
...have taken to worshiping at the tomb of Giacomo Nerone, a mysterious World War II deserter who lived less than a year in the town before being shot by Communist partisans. The local bishop asks Rome to send a "Promoter of the Faith" or "Devil's Advocate" to sift the ambiguous signs of Nerone's saintliness...
System Development engineers have already teamed with the Veterans Administration to compare the effects of various treatments on patients with a form of heart disease. Physicians at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital are using IBM computers to sift mountains of data on blood diseases, and getting answers that may suggest changes in treatment...
...charismatic and canonical. It is the role of the prophets moved by the Holy Spirit to shed new light in applying the truths of faith to new situations. Because their visions are new, they are suspect, and it is then that the canonical side of the church operates to sift and codify the vision...