Its expertise is gleaned from regular reviews that compare the performance of past acquisitions with the targets they were set.
He moved on to principal grade at the Treasury's productivity team, and the expertise he gleaned there took him for nine months to the then-financially troubled London borough of Hackney as performance improvement manager, reporting to the borough's Assistant Chief Executive.
Robert De Niro, as Mr. Stiller's future father-in-law, happens to work for the C.I.A., and while investigating his possible future son-in-law uses his expertise to glean personal information, much of it erroneous.
He was talked out of jettisoning hardware, and the expertise that Microsoft gleaned from that business made it easier later for the company to develop other promising hardware products, like Xbox and Zune.
Now it was all about utilising small, nimble companies to glean expertise the likes of PepsiCo could never hope to produce from within.
Yet this is also, in delirious profusion, a novel about whalers and whaling, crammed with cetacean expertise and seafaring lore gleaned from old Nantucket salts.
The proprietor of the Covers Contest was known to capsize a Sunfish or two, in his saltier years, and still enjoys shellfish, but his nautical expertise is limited to that gleaned from dry pages.
*Caterpillar, also dissatistifed with the meager revenues that its two-year-old corporate licensing department gleans from Caterpillar's manufacturing expertise, now aggressively pushes its methodologies on the Web, through its home page and through Yet2.com, an Internet technology marketplace that Caterpillar partly owns.
That kind of detail (gleaned from his voracious reading, he said) captivated Dale Schlein, who said Mr. Kaufman's expertise was the reason she was there.
A leading citizen is engaged in each village to glean what locals – now mostly Romanians and Gypsies – would like restored if money and expertise were available.
