Word: actualizing
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...nearby points, the charging of an electric car posed very little problem. In the 1830s, when Dutch inventor Sibrandus Stratingh created an electromagnetic cart, the vehicles have always stood out as a cleaner, cost-effective option to the steam or internal combustion engine. From Stratingh's invention evolved actual cars in the late 1800s that could move at low speeds using rechargeable batteries. Quieter and less noxious than their gas-powered counterparts, these electric cars surpassed them in popularity in the early part of the 20th century. One of the best-selling vehicles of that time was the Columbia Runabout...
...Just exactly what the equivocator’s answer has to do with the actual question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes that the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never be definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...
...completed, Wofsy said, adding that the researchers found “a very marked difference between the air you find in the United States and the arctic.” Unlike satellite imagery, the previous source of data on carbon dioxide concentrations, the plane will be able to collect actual samples of the air and from a much closer range. “We are interested in the sources of the gases from the ocean, China, and North America,” Wofsy said. “We know which countries are emitting—we are trying...
...most estimates the report on December unemployment could hardly have been worse. Many experts believe that 500,000 jobs would be lost and that unemployment would rise to 7%. The actual figures came...
...Sharpe] had received actual written threats photocopied on what could have only been Department of Corrections equipment (because of the security of the facility),” Welner said...