He went through much the same procedure as before: he was electronically searched, and his credit card was checked out, then handed back to him.

When the Clinton family decides it wants to take in an Arkansas game, it flies in just before game time, on your tax dollars, probably blithely unaware that 24,000 persons have been forced to stand in line outside the Coliseum, to be electronically searched, at some inconvenience and no small cost.

SEARCHING - Any information that can be digitally scanned can be electronically searched, Mr. Noble said.

Starting at 10 a.m. Thursday, riders may be electronically searched by handheld devices that look like cameras, told to step in front of machines that resemble phone booths or subjected to tests involving radar, infrared sensors and other technology, federal officials said yesterday.

The figure walked in and Joel, blinking, saw it was the chauffeur who had electronically searched him in the driveway.

Many others that could be searched electronically on his birthdate are protected by privacy laws.

It is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that they can be electronically searched, stored more compactly, displayed on-line, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech and text mining.

The Open Society Institute in New York says that files in its New York computer were electronically searched in July by a computer in Croatia's defense ministry.

These are sections that are so much more valuable when they can be electronically searched, filtered and graphed.

"Many of these CD's can be electronically searched," they said.