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21 May 2011, 3:00 pm
We opened it carefully, broke off a tiny sliver, and popped it into our mouth. [read post]
13 May 2011, 9:13 pm by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk)
All three are just a tiny sliver of the lore and legend on why Friday the 13th is unlucky in many cultures. [read post]
9 May 2011, 4:03 pm by Michael O'Hear
As Clements and the activists understand, when it comes to violent crimes the public’s sliver of compassion for convicts is reserved for the ones with the magic words in their narratives: “. . . a crime he didn’t commit. [read post]
8 May 2011, 3:48 pm by Darren O'Donovan
On the kindest possible interpretation, the calculus currently being sold is that torture is acceptable to gain a sliver of information that may, after six years of conventional intelligence and advanced surveillance networking, might at some point in the future, avoid the massacre of civilians. [read post]
2 May 2011, 11:48 am by Big Tent Democrat
I suppose, to take Drum's approach, I can't argue about the inefficacy of torture here, but I will nonetheless - if torture is acceptable to gain a sliver of information that MAY, given 6 years of hard conventional intelligence work down the line, be of value, then why have any rules at all on anything? [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 12:18 pm
The preponderance standard is met so long as the jury believes the plaintiff even a sliver more than the defendant. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 5:00 am by Law Office of Ava George Stewart, P.C.
This Chicago DUI attorney has a sliver of good news, if you could call it that about being charged with a DUI. [read post]
24 Apr 2011, 6:41 pm by Richard Posner
But except for the tiny sliver of flyers who can afford private planes, the cost structure of the airline industry, rooted in airliner design, prevents significant quality differentiation. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 7:30 am by Andrea K. Schneider
  What I thought I knew turned out to be the smallest sliver of reality; it affects so many people in so many ways. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 5:50 am by Alan Ackerman
Bucks County, Pennsylvania claims it is acquiring a 9,100 square foot “sliver,” a simple taking with minimal cost to the bank. [read post]
10 Apr 2011, 3:05 am by SHG
  No one gets to complete a sentence, a thought, before another voice slices and dices ideas into worthless slivers. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 12:41 pm by Ashby Jones
For instance, Dowd asked the agent whether he was aware that the $63.8 million represented a fraction of Galleon’s assets under management, which reached $7 billion at its high point, that the trading was a sliver of the daily activity in Galleon’s funds, or that the activity in question related to other investors’ money, not Rajaratnam’s. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 3:30 am by William Carleton
Some of the ideas above, and others, can be found at a sliver of a wiki on the topic on Quora. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 9:19 am
To find available slivers of spectrum, the TVBDs will consult a database that is intended to contain information about every use being made of TV spectrum throughout the United States. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 5:45 am by Paul A. Prados
To include the Hayfield precinct a sliver of the Villages precinct was carved to create a bottleneck to maintain contiguity. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 12:38 am
Opponents to the first-to-file system also believe that this introduction will worsen the huge backlog of patents faced by the USPTO (see post here) and result in the system being clogged up with thousands of unmeritorious inventions.Damages: The review of the assessment of patent damages that was taken up by Microsoft in their initial appeals in the i4i case last year (see AmeriKat posts here) evidenced only a sliver of general unrest with the assessment of US patent damages. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 2:15 am by jamison
Instead they open the file just a sliver when talking with a defense attorney. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 12:23 pm by Pei Wang
One sliver of good news came to light when rescue workers found a dog guarding a second, injured … [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 6:06 am by Christopher Ariano
Who doesn’t dream of owning a small sliver of paradise available for a small (or not so small) monthly payment? [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 11:05 am by Kashmir Hill
We made eye contact, and I saw a little sliver of a green shirt underneath the jacket and realized this was him. [read post]