Word: canvassing
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...dispersed in sleeper cells around the world. U.S. counter-terrorism investigators, sifting through interviews with detainees in Guantanamo and documents seized in Afghanistan and Pakistan, place top priority on pinning down the true names and nationalities of these Al-Qaeda operatives. Once that's been accomplished, U.S. agencies canvass security services where the terrorists resided for fingerprints. Mugshots and other identifying data are also being filed in the new system...
...example, on Nov. 12, The New York Times reported that officials from the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) are quietly checking up on Middle Eastern students at more than 200 college campuses nationwide. School administrators are calling this canvass of the halls of academia the most severe since the Cold War. In addition to asking “what subjects the students are studying, whether they are performing well and where they are living,” investigators are also interviewing students, sometimes repeatedly, about everything from favorite local restaurants to their plans after graduation...
Astrid King admitted that the weather was beginning to get to her—but the couple continued to canvass through their neighborhood...
...Lawrence Weimer resorts to a textual caption, since the visual image itself is apparently not enough. The drawing is strictly geometrical and almost devoid of a visual subject matter. Three bold black curves, each crowned with an unassuming hexagon, cut large swaths across the page (not, mind you, the canvass), and converge on a fourth prosaic stroke. It is almost entirely visually uninteresting and the negative space accounts for the vast majority of the framed image. It represents a feat of the intellect, not one of the imagination-it is, again, a scholastic exercise and has little to do with...
Board members had met in round-the-clock sessions the since early Saturday morning in hopes of completing a re-canvass of 14,500 questionable ballots, but simply ran out of time...