But last September outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm Mike Mullen said that the Haqqani network "acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency".

BBC: Panetta: US losing patience with Pakistan on militancy

This glacial rate of advance might give us time to settle some of the arguments that have begun to brew over the limits of driver-assist technologies -- the point at which the car, having sniffed out a veritable wealth of information about the world around it, switches (perhaps unbidden) to autopilot.

CNN: Behold the?all-seeing, self-parking, safety-enforcing, networked car

Batting Cleanup: The New York Times, which tossed the story onto its front page (above the fold), shooting the news through the universe like a veritable space shuttle.

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In fact, the Casey Institute has learned that a veritable flood of e-mails have been directed to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman, Arthur Levitt, demanding an explanation for what many regard as a "material omission" from Sinopec's SEC filing.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

It is this ethical commitment to rigor that distinguishes philosophy (at least in its analytical form) from science, which has begun facing a veritable inquisition, both in the academic and popular press, for sloppy thinking, cherry picking data, systemic bias and, in some cases, outright fraud.

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