Scott Lincicome and I even wrote a 20, 000-plus word Cato analysis explaining why the economic, geopolitical, and domestic political environment offered the president a unique opportunity to steer his party back to its pro-trade roots.

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Instead, Facebook feeds any political commentary in status messages into a text analysis software program, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, which determines whether what you said was positive or negative.

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Mark Russinovich of SysInternals did a detailed analysis of a "rootkit" (their word, not ours) he found on his PC, and discovered that, not only was it surreptitiously installed when he played a protected CD, but it also hogged system resources and integrated itself into Windows so deeply that uninstalling it disabled his CD drive.

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Reading an analysis in the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Walker, one word represented the great virtue Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson must bring to his new job: focus.

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Analysis revealed that more than half of his thesis had long sections lifted word-for-word from the work of others.

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Its simple interface has to date allowed people to create and share over 72, 000 visualizations ranging from the an analysis of the budget for the city of Moscow to tag clouds of the most common word in lyrics by the Beatles.

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