Harriet Miers, the president's former White House counsel, exploring with high-ranking officials of the Justice Department, the removal of all federal prosecutors so that the White House could have a free hand filling those ranks with nothing but political loyalists.

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Holding a fishing rod in one hand and filling your lungs with country air, the last thing you might expect to find a minute's walk away is a coffee shop and a clothing store.

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When mechanical engineer James Parks joined Nektar in 1994, employees at the company were hand-filling blister packs with an early version of insulin powder at a rate of 100 per person per day, too slow for mass production.

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Steven Phillips of Exxon Mobil (a board member of Roll Back Malaria) notes that his oil firm makes the pesticide used in bed nets woven in Tanzania and its filling stations could hand them out.

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Before filling out the aid application, he should hand the cash over to you, since the effective tax rate on your assets is only one-fifth the rate on his.

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My definition is somewhat broader: A sandwich is a filling enclosed in bread or pastry that can be eaten by hand.

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