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.
Scientists are still poring through the last chunk of data beamed back just before their demise.
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.
The intelligence community is poring through all threat reporting for any clues, U.S. counterterrorism officials told CNN.
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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.
MPS's new managers are poring through documents in an effort to understand and explain the extent of the bank's financial woes.
Regulators, politicians and industry groups are now poring over ways to improve the calculation of such rates (see Free Exchange).
After poring through thousands of official records from the time, Mr Pallanti believes Lisa Gherardini was widowed and ill when she died.
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.
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