Economists and political geeks are now poring over the small print from George Osborne's fourth Budget.
We're stuck at desk jobs, poring over YouTube videos and crunching fantasy football numbers.
There was a lot of poring over the recipes and videos and fussing over the details.
"I was staying up all hours of the night, poring over the data, " he says.
If you spot a Welsh MP poring over a large map today, do not be alarmed.
Toiling away at redundant reports, poring over rumours bought from shady characters, intelligence analysts get depressed.
There are engineers pushing the limits of design and the programmers poring over lines of code.
Yet the FCC has 17 lawyers plus a staff of 16 poring over obscenity and indecency complaints.
It prompts visions of accountants poring over computer screens to make sure everything is right and proper.
"The Iraqi judges are the ones who spent all the time poring over the evidence, " Snow said.
Egged on by Carlsberg's managers, lawyers have been poring over covenants seeking ways around the ownership requirement.
He seldom used his telephone to call people, preferring to sit in his office poring over statistics.
As well as poring over the books, they are touring facilities and examining plans for future products.
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"Geeks are like modern-day monks, but instead of poring over manuscripts we were reading computer manuals, " he says.
How do job candidates feel about having an unfamiliar talent-search company poring over their activities on various professional websites?
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Companies' risk managers are poring over their policies in search of something foul.
Back at the office, I'm poring over a map, trying to figure out where the slap-down may have occurred.
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Analysts then spend weeks, sometimes months, poring over data and interviewing company management.
Poring over the files of kill-list nominees recalls Lyndon Johnson's role in tightly controlling bombing strikes during the Vietnam War.
After spending months (and a few hundred grand in accounting fees) poring over 30 of the firm's contracts, Castle begged off.
Some racing fans plan out their wagers days in advance, poring over statistics and previous races to make an informed decision.
On one of her first assignments abroad, she spent countless days poring over the books of a struggling Kenyan microfinance firm.
Regulators, politicians and industry groups are now poring over ways to improve the calculation of such rates (see Free Exchange).
The two--Chief Executive Robert Nardelli and Vice Chairman James Press--were to spend the entire day poring over every vehicle in Chrysler's lineup.
Randall began poring over magazines and journals, looking for that revolutionary product.
In Portage County, home to Windham, dozens of researchers on Chesapeake's payroll have crowded the recorder's office since September, poring over land records.
He spent the summer of 2003 at his holiday home in Maine, poring over technical studies describing the state of Saudi Arabia's oilfields.
Analysts are still poring over intelligence data on the North Korean test, trying to determine the size and cause of the North Korea explosion.
Huddled around a table for hours, a handful of top journalists at CNN's political unit has been poring over YouTube videos by the thousands.
But as Magnotta surfed the Web, poring over news accounts of the case in which he himself was the suspect, the realization dawned on Anlayisli.
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