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...scene of anything remotely interesting; sometimes so thick that no units are available for even the most critical of runs. To the rookie out his first night the radio sounds like several New England auctioneers going at once; before long you learn the various code numbers then to sift out the cars from the dispatchers, and finally to understand what's going on, Sometimes entire little dramas are acted out over the radio, complete with climax and curtain. Occasionally you can be the part...
...There is no reason to think that the part played in choosing the trustees by the Corporation will sift out radicals," said Constantine Simonides, special assistant to Johnson...
...Government agencies by dropping enzymes. P. & G., which holds an estimated 55% of the market, is expected to start this month by eliminating enzymes from Tide, the nation's bestselling detergent. (The company has no plans for changing ingredients in Biz, its enzyme pre-soak.) Colgate will gradually sift out enzymes from its detergents-Ajax, Punch, Burst, Cold Power-and possibly from Axion, the leading pre-soak. Lever will replace the enzymes in its Drive detergent with sodium perborate, a bleach...
...sooner had the American people again asserted their shrewd political sophistication at the polls [Nov. 16] than the forces of party politics, still unconvinced, sought to deceive and insult the very voters who had, over the past months, been forced to sift through the reckless rhetoric and shallow nonissues of one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history to find even the faintest trace of substance and meaning...
...part because Levi-Strauss writes with a style that relies heavily on nuance, and in part because structuralism operates at so many different levels, it is difficult to sift out a central theme. Leach tries to clear the jumble by interpreting structurally, step by step, the Ocdipus myth and examples of kinship terminology. But finally he confuses his own idea of what structuralism means with Levi-Strauss's and one is left anxious to dive back into The Raw and the Cooked...