Winnowing
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"I did not," said Sancho, "but I found her
winnowing
two bushels of wheat in the yard of her house."
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It is very difficult for the fonio producers today to sell and use fonio unless they devote a huge amount of time and energy in threshing,
winnowing
and husking it.
This
winnowing
effect together with a strong cultural predilection for marrying and reproducing only within the Ashkenazi community, would have amplified the relative frequency of carriers, boosting TB resistance but increasing the incidence of Tay-Sachs as an unfortunate side effect.
But many complex policy choices – for example, about financial-sector reform and opening up – would benefit from the
winnowing
process that greater openness affords.
I have mentioned this lest anybody should mind what Sancho said about Dulcinea's
winnowing
or sifting; for, as they changed her to me, it is no wonder if they changed her to him.
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