We began compiling information for the table by consulting the most recent company annual reports.

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Brahm might have done better to simply concentrate on compiling information.

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He describes how they would spy on the players, collecting their personal data and compiling information about their habits to try and trick them into spending even more than they already were.

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Despite compiling enough information to fill a book, team executives can never know for sure whether a player will succeed.

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Each Reserve Bank has people who work diligently and systematically in compiling the information that goes into the Beige Book.

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Datalogix tracks the relationship between ads on Facebook and real-world spending by compiling consumer purchasing information from retail stores and matching it with data about Facebook ad impressions.

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There are two projects I should be doing, including one that involves compiling many disparate pieces of information and interviewing several business school professors.

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The thing that truly surprises him is the fact that somebody would go to the trouble of compiling all of his online information into a narrative.

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The Equine Injury Database makes available to the public information on equine breakdowns, and Peterson envisions compiling daily reports on track maintenance that is available to track management, horse owners, trainers, jockeys, and the public.

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Data need to be made sense of through the appropriate operations of compiling, checking, interpreting, and finally summarizing before they become information.

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