Word: populars
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...real-time, utilities rarely know how much electricity any given customer is using, or when. Even though electric cars use relatively little power - the average car recharging draws about as much juice as a widescreen TV - they could still potentially overwhelm the electrical system. If plug-ins suddenly became popular, before the grid had a chance to get smarter, it could lead to a real power predicament. "You can imagine what would happen if five drivers on the block got home at 5 p.m. and all decided to recharge their cars at the same time," says Charles Griffith, auto project...
...common theme is what’s popular and what people are talking about,” he said...
...larger than the old location and includes a reading room, several offices, and a conference room, as well as a roof deck with views of as far away as MIT. The top-floor space, formerly offices for a local non-profit, is located across the street from Berryline, a popular frozen yogurt store that opened a year...
...enemies, including shameless Republican porkers like Ted Stevens of Alaska; I was especially sympathetic to McCain's unpopular stand blaming the Minnesota bridge collapse on highway pork, because I took the same position. But as a political matter, McCain is on the wrong side of tens of thousands of popular goodies...
...just political double-talk. With two or three debatable exceptions, McCain has abstained from pork for Arizona, and he's been a principled gadfly objecting to the pork-making process. For example, McCain has consistently voted against Army Corps of Engineers water projects, Capitol Hill's most popular form of pork; he and Democrat Russell Feingold have fought a quixotic battle to reform the dysfunctional Corps and the haphazard process by which its projects are funded. McCain has even argued that water pork contributed to the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, another argument I have made. But that fealty to principle...