Instead of tracking down the whole speech, the administration ran scared.
Instead of tracking foreign spies, she conducts background checks on C.I.A. applicants.
Instead of tracking industry trends, colleges put valuable time and resources into chasing funding from a whole variety of pots.
Quality yardsticks are helpful, but they still measure inputs -- ones associated with better health -- instead of tracking how patients fare.
And instead of tracking individual animals himself, he has developed programs to let computers do the work.
But instead of tracking only sales, the systems also track the cashiers, looking for unusual patterns even as sales are taking place.
Instead of tracking participants' meals over time, the researchers asked them to come in and write about a memorable victory or defeat by their favourite team or athlete.
But instead of tracking down the perfect carved donkey or guiding star that would complete the family crèche, the remaining customers were stocking up on batteries.
Instead of tracking hares, rabbits and other small game, Cliff puts his nostrils to work on the wards chasing down patients suffering from Clostridium Difficile, the hospital infection that can spread rapidly among the elderly causing lethal outbreaks.
Carney, currently governor of the Bank of Canada, has floated the idea that central banks could aim at boosting nominal GDP - economic output plus inflation - instead of tracking an inflation target, the framework followed in the UK since the early-1990s.
