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He loves sifting through corporate balance sheets and watching the research into a particular company pay off, he said.

It’s not hard math, but it takes some diligence to map out the numbers and sift through more than one projection until you get to the right answer for your own situation.

Willow, pregnant and officially on maternity leave, hastens to assist him in sifting through suspects.

Banks are sifting through their exposure to the bankrupt auto-parts supplier and its chain of customers and suppliers.

They want their companies to succeed but don’t have time to sift through hundreds of ballot items.