The scathing take on the FBI numbers came about as a result of an attempt by statisticians within BJS to evaluate what was worth salvaging in the bureau's arrest-related deaths program.
As I travelled I met new terms as well as salvaging old ones: a painter in the Western Isles who used landskein to refer to the braid of blue horizon lines on a hazy day; a five-year-old girl who concocted honeyfur to describe the soft seeds of grasses pinched between fingertips.
Gordon Brown's resignation statement this afternoon gives Labour its best possible chance of salvaging a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition from the rubble of the 6 May general election result.
However, for Andersen insiders this is merely salvaging what they can from the wreckage.
He has received little credit for a competent job in salvaging what he could from the mess he inherited at RBS.
Salvaging the economy required the most radical reform ever seen of the "licence raj"—a creaking edifice of central planning held together by miles of red tape.
Those he singled out included education grants for college students, enacting laws to give millions of Americans health insurance to ending the war in Iraq, promoting renewable fuels and green technology, building new roads, raising tax rates on the richest to help reduce the deficit and salvaging the American car industry with large infusions of bail-out money.
In essence, they might be more willing to open their markets to rich countries if doing so did not simultaneously let in more Chinese goods.Some in Geneva are floating the idea of salvaging something from the talks by hiving off the least contentious bits in a Doha-lite agreement.
JUST when it looks as if salvaging a unified Iraq will be hopeless, there comes a reminder of how strongly many Iraqis still want to live together in a single nation.
Godfrey and his family are looking to start up their small bush refinery again, salvaging what is left.
More spectacularly, the CSRC and the city government of Shenzhen in January seized control of China Southern Securities, the fifth-largest broker, because of corruption and mismanagement.But in the government's eyes, stockmarket reform has a lower priority than salvaging the banks.
