The point of gathering mushrooms was ultimately to eat them.
Those who traveled home recently made a point of gathering their leftover punts for the trip.
And since the point of gathering such data was to help sell advertising and raise revenue, who could wonder that digital ads were only raising maybe a tenth of their print equivalents?
Richard Stead, father of the plane's pilot, Flt Lt David Stead, asked Ollis: "What is the point of gathering expertise and doing nothing with it?" Ollis replied: "The decision was that ESF [the foam system] was not a priority at the time".
Use this informal search as a starting point for gathering a large group of possible candidates.
The archives of Robert K Merton, who introduced the term to the social sciences, were used as a starting point for gathering literature and examples.
His triumph at Sandwich does not help him, though, in terms of gathering points for next year's team.
There is an elaborate system of gathering points to unlock rare audio and visual material from the Apple archives.
Taking a page from the venerable Harper's Index, and a few from "A Day in the Life of America," this flash census took a snapshot of gathering points in each of the five boroughs: a food court, a ferry, a cafe, a park, a bus.
But as many pointed out, the complexities of gathering evidence on terror suspects like Abu Huzaifa, who committed their alleged crimes abroad, is no easy feat under Canadian law.
