Word: expectancies
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...change was a good idea - not least because it gave drivers a more accurate measure of how much they'd end up spending at the pump. So, you would expect that the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) ratings - the industry-wide minimum standards that the government uses to push automakers to improve gas mileage - would also use the updated tests. But guess what? They don't. (See TIME's special report on Global Warming...
...What you have to take into account is the overall economic state of the country and the federal deficit,” he said. “I don’t expect that NIH or other funding sources will be turned on right away because there are many other priorities...
...Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We Can Do About It).” His conclusions are quite surprising.A quick read by almost any standard, the book embodies political writing at its best. Poundstone’s discussions are timely, colorful, and compelling, even when one might expect the subject to be rather dull. He deftly balances the many elements of his text, alternating seamlessly from historical analysis to mathematical explanation, all the while providing relatable characters—and a good dose of humor—for his readers.Poundstone begins by investigating a number of elections...
...point, “Synecdoche, New York” has a place in the genealogy of Kaufman’s work only insofar as it takes the personal context of those earlier films and erases them.The story itself is as complex as Kaufman fans have come to expect. Caden Cotard (Hoffman) immerses himself in his work to escape his failed marriage. His sudden, debilitating loneliness amplifies and resonates with his obsession with the various frailties of the human form—injury, lesions, seizures—all of which Caden suffers from at one point or another. The rapidity...
...lyrics actually detracts from the freshness of the background sounds. In other songs, the lyrics are simply nothing special: for example, “Cappuccino” begins with a chord that sounds like it’s from an 8-bit video game, something one would almost never expect from a hip-hop compilation, but the fact that they repeatedly sing, “I need a fresh cappuccino with a mocha twist / Fresh fresh cappuccino with a mocha twist” dampens the song’s overall impact. Tracks that have less rapping and more instrumental experimentation...