• One explains that Singapore needs to weed out undeserving claimants and shakes his head at the potential cost of a comprehensive welfare service.

    ECONOMIST: The city-state stays strict with the needy

  • Demand Media took a major hit in traffic after Google changed its search algorithm to weed low-quality pages out of top results.

    FORBES: Demand Media to Google: Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?

  • Anecdotal evidence of really awful teachers is always springing forth to justify a system of accountability designed to weed out ineffective, unsatisfactory teachers.

    FORBES: The False Choices of Education Reform

  • Its chief tool is E-Verify, an electronic employment eligibility verification system used to weed out unauthorized immigrants when they apply for a job.

    FORBES: Arizona-Style Immigration Laws Hurt the Economy

  • These were designed to weed out frivolous cases involving complaints about unpaid City bonuses, but they might also discourage genuine whistleblowing, fears Ms James.

    ECONOMIST: Campaigning for a change in the law on whistleblowing

  • The return of IPOs, put on hold as the market regulator tries to weed out weak candidates, could boost earnings at companies such as Citic Securities.

    WSJ: Asian Brokers Benefit From Rising Stock-Trading Volumes

  • At BayShore Dura Medical, Lopez and Mendia complain that some of the new CMS rules penalize legitimate companies while still not doing enough to weed out fraud.

    NPR: Feds Fight Rampant Medicare Fraud in South Florida

  • Mr Gormez's goal is to weed out those unsavoury texts (on restricting women's freedoms, for instance) that, in Mr Gormez's words, obscure the original values of Islam.

    ECONOMIST: Religion in Turkey

  • The 5% Duma barrier was designed to weed out the just-for-fun contenders, but even the bigger ones have mutated, merged and divided like bacteria, leaving the voter bewildered.

    ECONOMIST: The Russian elections

  • The Swiss veteran is sure to be pleased by the ITF's confirmation of a biological passport scheme, similar to the one used by cycling authorities to weed out doping cheats.

    CNN: Tennis serves up new measures in the fight against doping

  • In Mr. Frampton's lab, technicians spent several hours this past week rubbing the branches and weighing needle loss from hundreds of Fraser fir samples, to weed out non-needle-holding family lines.

    WSJ: Fir Real? Christmas Trees in Crisis as Americans Flock to Fakes

  • Each bankruptcy trust operates by its own rules, and they have resisted efforts to share even basic information, such as the Social Security numbers of claimants, to weed out double-dipping.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But they say they are working hard to weed out the scofflaws, both from within the industry and with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which can only help its business overall.

    FORBES: The Infomercial Triumphant

  • For a decade, Google and the other search engines declined to use a verification program created in 1999 by a group representing U.S. state pharmacy regulators to weed-out rogue online drug sellers.

    WSJ: Google Was Warned on Rogue Drug Ads

  • Hiring managers will be able to weed out the potential employees who applied for the job simply they saw it online from the ones who truly want to work for that specific organization.

    FORBES: The 10 Worst Pieces Of 'Good' Career Advice

  • Karin Gilford, ABC's senior vice president of digital media, says an outside company has been hired to monitor the tweets that will appear on the Oscar site to weed out spam and offensive content.

    WSJ: Tweeting the Oscars: I'd Like to Thank My Twitter Followers

  • Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor and now a law professor at George Washington University, says the greatest concern will be to weed out people who want to be on the jury of a notorious case.

    BBC: NEWS | Americas | Hunt for jury neutral on 9/11 plot

  • Like eliminating bugs from software programs, it takes time to weed the cranks out of the system -- and, in a fast-moving case like Boston, the cranks went viral, as all the false IDs and dead ends indicated.

    CNN: Should criminal investigations be crowdsourced?

  • This might include inserting a proportionality test for EAWs to weed out trivial cases and giving judges more discretion to refuse extradition when grave human-rights concerns arise, as urged by Fair Trials International, which campaigns for extradition reform.

    ECONOMIST: Opting out of the EU

  • But he refuses to equate the interests of the welfare state's consumers with the interests of its workers, whom he has already begun to antagonise by creating a regime of inspectors to weed out bad teachers, social workers and doctors.

    ECONOMIST: Goldilocks politics | The

  • Nobody wants to weed through their vast music libraries to figure out what to sync with iCloud and what to leave out to make it under the different gigabyte thresholds we just want to sync it all and not worry about it.

    FORBES: With The iPhone 5, The Style Is The Substance. What's Wrong With That?

  • On the recommendation of several British fashion editors, I visited Vestiaire Collective, the Paris-based resale (translation: the clothes are preowned) site that launched in the U.K. last spring and now ships to the U.S. The selection is thoroughly high-end (celebrities Sophie Dahl and Rachel Weisz have donated goods), and each piece is vetted by in-house specialists who are trained to weed out fakes.

    WSJ: The Fashion Piece That Got Away

  • Biometric identification is also helping counties to automatically weed through the fake, duplicate, and fraudulent entries with a speed and precision not before possible.

    FORBES: We Don't Need a National ID Card

  • On May 8th it was expected to allow foreigners to set up funds without teaming up with a local majority partner, a move meant to help weed out badly managed local firms.

    ECONOMIST: Fund management: South Korea’s hidden horror | The

  • "We take this moment to remind prosecutors and their staffs that the Racial Justice Act mentions the idea of training program, to help weed out racial bias as they exercise their broad discretion in capital cases, " said the Rev.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Employers, too, have sought help from these providers: as unemployment numbers rise, the number of applications received for each posted position increases, and it can be a full time job to simply weed through the submitted resumes looking for potential first-round interviewees.

    FORBES: The Job Search: A Little Help From Your Friends

  • But Gov. Jay Inslee insists there are ways to prevent the bulk smuggling of the state's newest cash crop into the black market, including digitally tracking weed to ensure that it goes from where it is grown to the stores where it is sold.

    NPR: Wash. Vows To Try To Keep Weed In State _ But How?

  • Burridge is quick to criticise "evil weed" words, such as dishonest euphemisms that try to sound neutral when really they are negative, such as friendly fire and downsize.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | On your marks

  • Zimbabwean tobacco growers watch in horror as big cigarette firms, worried that their supplies might vanish, help farmers in neighbouring countries to start growing the weed.

    ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe

  • After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre.

    CNN: Bradley's twilight cruise

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