Officials declined to elaborate on the contents of the missing material, except to confirm that it involved sources and methods relating to weapons proliferation, including data gathered from satellite intercepts, and human and electronic sources.
Al Jazeera noted on its Web site that, judging from the context, the missing material appeared to contain a list of seven demands the country's military leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, made to the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Small holes have been bored in each one and the missing material sent off to a lab at UC Irvine for detailed chemical analysis.
Michael Mulgrew, the president of the teachers' union, the United Federation of Teachers, said on Friday that he had been deluged for weeks by complaints about missing materials at hundreds of schools.
Waste of waiting: idle time between operations or during an operation due to missing material, an unbalanced line, scheduling mistakes, etc. From the procurement perspective: Waiting for orders of stents and other medical equipment coming in at the controlling department from the interventional radiology department.
It is easier to trim a little extra than to replace missing material.
Arcane, fragmentary writing encourages active reading, they argue, by forcing the reader to supply the missing material.
Dr. Browne said that as soon as he found out, on the night of May 31, a major effort was started at the laboratory to find the missing material.
The methodology is illustrated with simulated data and implemented to measure the thickness of missing material hidden within engineered samples.
Thanks to immediate filling of the missing material by bulldozers at the left bank side, the overtopping could be inhibited and the dam was finally saved.
