Complicating matters, both the department's officials and Mr. Pippin's lawyers agree that Texas law prohibits the stacking of probation terms and prison sentences.
Each stack of digital files — tagged with search terms, scattered across the Web — can be redistributed as fragments from a book-as-mothership, to which a reader might never return.
"Our functionality allows the review and the finding of key terms, in a stack of paper that's a foot high, happen like that," Mr. Tormey said, snapping his fingers.
Spectral scanning over a stack of frames is subjected to long-term fluctuation and can result in spectral and spatial distortions.
The term refers to the full stack of capabilities required to succeed.
The surfaces left and right of the stack were termed sides.
We have developed a data analysis based on the paracrystalline theory which enables the characterization of stacking disorder in terms of the average number of layers contributing to Bragg scattering and the relative dispersion of the distribution of interlayer distances.
Summers, fearful of the reaction in the markets and on Capitol Hill, declined to entertain larger proposals (such as the $1.2 trillion favored by Christina Romer, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers), and he stacked the terms of the internal debate from the beginning.
Google, for example, at one point jumped ahead of Apple to become the most valuable company in the world but more or less has returned to the reality that it's an advertising company and hasn't shown the promise of becoming something more full-stack in terms of how we interface with the internet just yet.
"It's too early to tell how it will stack up in terms of any compensation paid, but clearly in terms of the numbers of people involved, this is the largest class action in Australian history," he said.
