So how to sort through the chaff and find Twitterers worthy of the hallowed follow button?
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The new X prize is designed to winnow the genetic wheat from the chaff.
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It therefore comes armed with counter-measures including chaff, flares and heat shields to mask the engines.
The second is that 35 years have winnowed the technological wheat from the chaff.
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They fear further stigmatisation now that the wheat has been formally separated from the chaff.
It is too much information, too fast, and there is too much chaff intermixed with the wheat.
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Separating wheat from chaff requires both insight and an institutional culture that is tolerant of such decision making.
Perhaps, however, Mr MacAskill's moralising is merely rhetorical chaff, thrown up to disguise the realpolitik that lay behind the release.
You have to separate the wheat from the chaff, as they say, which is, not surprisingly, easier said than done.
Hone your ability to quickly sift the wheat from the chaff and address what must be answered on an urgent basis.
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The result, however, is that the shaft disintegrates and the useful fibres have to be winnowed from the chaff of broken shaft.
Those jets that do make bombing runs now deploy chaff for protection.
Mr Engle and Mr Granger have crafted techniques that demand even greater virtuosity at maths, but which are nevertheless crucial in separating wheat from chaff.
Typically investors put their money with top ranked managers because they believe that these amazing stock pickers are skilled in separating the wheat from the chaff among stocks.
If you have a trusted assistant who really knows you and your business, have him or her go through your email regularly and separate the wheat from the chaff.
Yes, massive industry events are often better at sorting companies with and without stellar marketing budgets than the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, but it's also a necessary evil.
Providers can help separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Instead of separating the wheat from the chaff according to what layer it is found in, this relies on the different optical properties of the various inks, the mould and the parchment itself.
But still, reviewers depend on publishers acting as winnowers, sorting out the wheat from the chaff, and at least attempting to make sure that they are sent books they are actually interested in.
Well, the managers would have you believe that the Judiciary Committee and the House were really nothing more than grand jurors, serving as some routine screening device to sort out impeachment chaff from impeachment wheat.
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Listing every conceivable website or social network that might occasionally hold material information is a way of conforming to the letter of disclosure law, while deluging investors with so much chaff that no one benefits at all.
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However, each theoretical possibility also predicts a particular pattern of future dips, so that the chaff of apparent dips caused by observational noise can be winnowed from the wheat of real planets by patient watching and waiting.
Far more worryingly, this sorting of the wheat from the chaff occurred in the credit defaults swap market, which showed the perceived risk of bankruptcy ballooning for Citi and rising sharply for BoA, while JPMorgan remained more secure.
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The purity of the supply and demand equation in the muni market and its resulting reflection on interest rate levels is where the wheat will be separated from the chaff and what investors need to embrace as their new bellwether.
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In other words, when the president talks darkly about the menace of property restitution claims by millions of Germans, it is the political equivalent of a warplane firing out chaff: a defensive distraction rather than a sign it is about to launch an imminent attack.
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