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In sum, there is a wealth of information succinctly presented in the pages of LPD which learners, linguists, and lexicographers will be mining for many years to come, including the pronunciation of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch .
We postulated that additional examples of this phenomenon might be obtainable by mining public human and mouse expressed sequence tag (EST) databases.
These eight "anti-environment" Senate votes were: a vote against de-funding the Synfuels Corp.; a vote in favor of constructing a highway along the boundary of a wilderness park in Hawaii; a vote against creating a new victim's compensation program under the Superfund program; a vote to cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency; two highway bill votes; a vote against banning new billboard construction along federally subsidized highways; and a vote against a moratorium on issuing federal patents for hard-rock mining on public lands out west.
A survey of this sort allows little time for mining the substantial debates among black intellectuals, but the main ones get at least a mention.
Who would have guessed that free access to journals would result in students mining the literature for relevant papers and sending them to their instructors for consideration?