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  • Both are in for legally mandated vettings by the Foreign Investment Review Board.

    Rio Realities 2009

  • CRAIG: There were many, many lawyers involved and many, many vettings.

    CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2008 2008

  • So many of the things picked up on in vettings may not mean anything in relation to the horses performance - and I think that is what really matters (obviously if there was something that would reduce performance that would be a different matter).

    unknown title 2009

  • Former Bush speechwriter David Frum called one of Beck's many vettings of a White House appointee (Cass Sunstein in this case) "beyond sloppy, beyond ignorant, proceeding straight toward the deceptive."

    Reason Magazine Greg Beato 2009

  • That's a weird comparison, I know, but even the Swiss Guards - who have the probably the strictest personnel vettings on the planet - every once in a while have a rogue member (they had a barracks murder a few years ago).

    The Mex Files 2008

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