In "Tinker, Tailor," Smiley ferrets out a traitor high in the ranks of MI6.
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The biographer ferrets out the facts, but the novelist shows us just how delicate and unstable they really are.
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The business of government, after all, also involves confrontation, as when it ferrets out fraud or brings murderers to justice.
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It's the program that makes planting decisions for farmers or ferrets out the possible cancer diagnosis in a patient before a human doctor could.
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As daughter Perdita grows older and more curious about her mother's mysterious upbringing, she digs into the past and ferrets out a thorny family legacy.
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The dreaded audit is the main way the I.R.S. catches scofflaws and ferrets out unreported income, but it is a time-consuming and imperfect tool.
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He ferrets out secrets and uses them to get others to do his bidding, all the while keeping his own secrets extremely close to his chest.
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Parachuted into any far-flung corner of the planet, Bourdain ferrets out the restaurant, known only to discerning locals, where the grilled sardines or the pisco sours are divine.
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Why it matters: In a study released today, McKinsey ferrets out 400 practical current use cases for AI that it says could be worth $3.5 trillion a year in savings and sales.
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When she ferrets out a rinky-dink drug ring operating out of the motel where she and her young son are staying, Brenda immediately takes over and turns the men into her underlings.
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In "Billion Dollar Brand Club," the veteran business journalist Lawrence Ingrassia (a former editor at The New York Times) ferrets out the most compelling, consequential stories and people behind the direct-to-consumer revolution.
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It was around the same time that Magionos, a cellist and former employee at Deloitte & Touche, joined the FBI as a forensic accounting specialist who makes sense of complex financial transactions and ferrets out fraud.
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All told, there's a tremendous appetite and an increasingly robust infrastructure for strong investigative journalism that ferrets out the most salacious secrets of Silicon Valley, from its invisible algorithms to its data-sharing partnerships to its cutthroat personalities to its backroom politics.
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As Deputy Secretary of HHS, Corr was responsible for many of the day-to-day operations of the department, and among other duties, was the co-chair of the Health Care Fraud Prevention & Enforcement Action Team HEAT,Medicare Fraud Strike Force Operations Lead to Charges hhs.gov' news release, June 24, 2009. a task force which ferrets out Medicare fraud.
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Rodgers tracks down his source > material with rare skill, enormous energy, and, we can use no other word, > gusto. He ferrets out forgotten or lost manuscripts, college and society > records, family letters, anything that bears on his subject. The result is > that his work is authoritative, detailed, and remarkably complete... This is > one of the most satisfactory biographies to appear in recent years." Albert > F. Hill, reviewing Rodgers' Liberty Hyde Bailey, wrote "... no review can do > it justice.
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Later on, Tuppence ferrets out of Lady Laura's French maid, Elise, that her employer is something of a kleptomaniac, and five times in the past items have gone missing when she has been staying at friends' houses. They search Lady Laura's bedroom and bathroom, momentarily getting stuck in the latter room when Elise cannot open the door. Tommy takes pictures in the bedroom with Elise's assistance and then quietly tells Tuppence that he has an idea and has to go out to pursue it. In the meantime, she is not to let Lady Laura out of the house.
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Claire Tomalin in The Observer said, "the story is a small perfect triumph in the hands of a master. This is probably the best bet for Christmas if you want to hand out spinal rather than moral chills." The Library Journal said, "This imported British spin-off from the adult series doesn't exude literary quality but is a notch above what might be expected. After a sluggish beginning in which Bond family relationships and the basis for the story's intrigue are explained, the adventures of the youthful 003 1/2 (James Bond's nephew) gain momentum as he ferrets out the mystery of a heavily"guarded estate and runs up against gold robbers and guard dogs.
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