Word: developable
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...term is "leapfrog" - or as Davis said later, "super leapfrog." Desperate to keep juice flowing to their rapidly growing economies - in India especially, blackouts remain a fact of life - the big developing nations are adding electrical capacity fast, cheap and dirty. China alone is building a coal plant a week for the next five years, locking in vast levels of carbon dioxide emissions. It would be a big step just to get these economies to the same efficiency and relative cleanliness of developed-world energy systems. Coal plants in Japan, for instance, operate with an efficiency of 40% or better...
...from Stony Brook (6-3, 6-0) and Princeton (6-2, 5-7, 6-4). Ninth-seeded Nguyen advanced to the quarterfinals after defeating No. 5 seed Mustafa Genscoy of George Washington. He struggled in the first set against Genscoy’s unconventional game, but was able to develop a strategy to get the win. “[Genscoy’s] unorthodox and throws a lot of spins that guys aren’t used to,” Nguyen said. “I was instructed to be more aggressive...
...Slovakia and retains Slovakian citizenship), a recurring hip injury finally forced him to give up on competitive hockey for good. But though Wintner had to forego his hockey career, this jack of all trades refused to say goodbye to sports.“Playing all the different sports helped develop my athletic abilities a little bit,” Wintner said. “That’s kind of why I wasn’t ready to stop cold turkey and give it up when I got to college.”And Wintner, used to the highest level...
...second possesses something remotely resembling the melodic quality of the band’s early hits, but refuses to develop beyond a split-second of inventive guitar work and a—debatably—unobjectionable chorus...
...flog the word democracy. But he did, using the term more than 60 times in 2 1?2 hours, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. But before anyone could break out the voting booths, Xinhua carried another story that clarified what Hu really meant: China would continue to develop democracy "with Chinese characteristics" under the "leadership of the Communist Party...