When we consult this galaxy of surviving paper, sift it, make connections between and rearrange the bits, we come to know what we have been, who we are, what we might become.
So we consulted this week with two attorneys, one a very well-known and highly respected former African American judge in Atlanta, and the other a highly regarded employment discrimination lawyer.
Based on this information, we consulted the NCBI database for Single Nucleotide Polymorphorisms (SNPs).
As the reviewer suggests, and as was suggested when we consulted the editor, we suspect this is a problem of wording in our results.
Before launching this study, we consulted the ethical committee of the Nerima Hikarigaoka Hospital and were officially advised that ethical review was not required because the data were collected in an unlinked anonymous manner.
We consulted the staff psychiatrist.
"We consulted the Cheney family".
So we consulted the experts.
"One of the lawyers we consulted on this said 'if you are bringing a suit on a rule against this agency and you didn't raise this issue you could be charged with legal malpractice,'" said David Hirschmann, head of the group's Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness.
