• At present, it has no formal representation beyond some information-gathering by a Scots-based Bank agent.

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  • Gathering height-and-weight data in countries spread over two or more islands, with many remote villages, is challenging.

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  • But the chairman of Saturday's gathering - university lecturer John Makumbe - told delegates Zimbabweans must have a constitution acceptable to the majority.

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  • We will be gathering our intel through iReports, canvassing our network of correspondents and chefs across the globe, and gathering on-the-ground dispatches from CNN reporters.

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  • The MD of one consultancy told us how its intelligence-gathering dissuaded a blue-chip British company from a potentially damaging investment in a corrupt privatisation in a south-east Asian country.

    BBC: I spy with my private eye.....

  • Among other things, the inquiry led to the creation of a behind-the-lines intelligence-gathering organizer of anti-Nazi operations, the Office of Strategic Services, which was the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • That may sound impossible, but it apparently works by concentrating the extra light-gathering area of a full-frame lens down to the smaller E-mount sensor area, turning an f4.0 lens into an f2.8 lens, for instance.

    ENGADGET

  • Military surveillance aircraft scoured the battlefield -- from the lowest-flying aircraft such as the Army's Hunter and the Marines' Pioneer, to the Predator, to the higher-flying Global Hawk and U-2 -- and on up to the information-gathering satellites.

    CNN: Analysts: War provides 'textbook case'

  • We have to ensure that protocols that have been in place and developed since -- for many, many years, don't prevent either information-gathering or information-sharing so that somebody that's on the TIDES list can't go to the screening -- the database screening list and ultimately to selectee and no-fly.

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  • The season started off with two technology-statistics-gathering firms, IDC and Gartner, publishing numbers that showed a steep drop-off in PC shipments.

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  • Either way, I wound up at the city-funded Gathering Place Homeless Drop-In Center.

    WSJ: One Night in the HELP Women's Shelter

  • "I'd like to try to go back to recording with just one microphone - the band gathering around - a really simple live thing, " he said.

    BBC: Andrew Bird's high-wire act takes flight

  • This gathering of left-leaning, activist-sympathetic lawyers is an odd place for a Forbes journalist to show up, but they wanted a full range of views for the panel on securities litigation.

    FORBES: Progressives Wrestle With A Tough Sales Pitch

  • Organisers in London insist the expedition's data-gathering is still important for research - despite the setbacks - and describe reaching the Pole as "largely irrelevant".

    BBC: Arctic team gives up on ice radar

  • Management-consulting and problem-solving are very different from intelligence-gathering.

    FORBES: Readers Say

  • The family business Charles inherited consisted of an engineering firm, part-interest in a Minnesota refinery, a crude-oil-gathering pipeline in Oklahoma and some cattle ranches.

    FORBES: Mr. Big

  • After the bed-and-breakfast gathering, where he was struck by the composition of the mourners, Hardy sent an e-mail to Donna St.

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  • Only America's National Security Agency is thought to have the raw computing power required to unscramble Skype packets, and its intelligence-gathering efforts are far removed from day-to-day law enforcement and the collection of evidence for prosecutions.

    ECONOMIST: Internet wiretapping

  • Oshima was sure consumers would take to the sort of U.S.-style mini-labs he'd been gathering information about, where film is developed quickly on-site for a small premium.

    FORBES: "Everyone said I would fail"

  • One, which has stayed out of the spotlight, is an intelligence-gathering task-force.

    ECONOMIST: Terrorism in South-East Asia

  • Blogging pioneer Doc Searls has long argued that customers should shield their data and charge a price for it, turning the tables on marketing giants and their data-gathering web-crawlers.

    FORBES: Is Your Job Robot-Proof?

  • He said that he would call a loya jirga - a national gathering - to discuss the issue.

    BBC: Karzai's promise of a 'new season' for Afghanistan

  • The gathering - on the last day of the Olympic Games - will bring together world leaders, business figures, non-government organisations and development campaigners in an effort to generate renewed momentum behind tackling malnutrition in Africa and other parts of the world.

    BBC: Anti-hunger petition goes to Downing Street

  • Security Council Resolution 1973, which is guiding the mission that NATO now has commanding control over and is the lead authority in, and which the United States military is still participating in, in an advise and support role -- advisory and support role, which is -- continues to be important -- intelligence gathering, jamming, refueling, and the like.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • It's what you can't see that makes it so special - its software and intelligence-gathering capabilities.

    BBC: Joint Strike Fighter: Jet that's a 'spy in the sky'

  • Meetings - like the current European finance ministers' gathering - come and go.

    BBC: The Greek conundrum

  • Before they played their set in front of a selected audience - with many others gathering outside the building's gates - Madness appeared on The One Show recalling their favourite TV Centre moments.

    BBC: Madness perform Television Centre gig

  • Fred returned to the U.S. on the eve of World War II and built an even larger fortune around Rock Island Refining, a refinery and oil-gathering pipeline system in southern Oklahoma, and a part-interest in a refinery outside of Minneapolis.

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  • La Motte is a historic Franschhoek site, with huge 17th-century importance in the then-gathering story of the French in South Africa.

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  • Using that desk as a prism, Rossi could easily see how the Times relates to the new-media landscape of amateur news-gathering Web sites, WikiLeaks, and the like.

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