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One is a modified version of the test often used to root out alcohol addiction.

She sarcastically asked if the farm had pigs, which traditionally are used to root out truffles.

The company's recent decision to ask 150 of its senior staff to undergo psychometric tests went down badly with managers suspecting the exams would be used to root out people that ITV wanted to sack.

"Newspapers have started to quote them, and journalists say it has given them more freedom to discuss corruption".Mobile phones can also be used to root out corruption in more direct ways.

The commission's final report found that the C.I.A.'s paramilitary operations, like those used to root out terrorist leaders in Afghanistan and elsewhere, had a history of unsatisfactory results before the Sept. 11 attacks and that "the United States cannot afford to build two separate capabilities for carrying out secret military operations".

Based on Maoist struggle sessions, these were used to root out subconscious racism and sexism within their own psyches.

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Administration officials say that while military force is not the way to confront North Korea or Iran, there is an active debate about its use to root out Mr. Hussein.

The new policy, a year in the making, had been bogged down by fierce debates over which projects it should support, and even more basically, whether to view the Internet primarily as a weapon to topple repressive regimes or as a tool that autocrats can use to root out and crush dissent.

Another method Facebook can use to root out false accounts is by observing the groups and communities the official accounts interact with.

"There's a lot of talk about what they're doing, but not a lot of talk about efficacy," said Farid, who helped develop the technology Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook use to root out images of child pornography.

Orlando is the 35th-biggest U.S. media market, with a 1.7 million population that's old, transient and used to rooting for out-of-state teams.

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