Word: prong
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...ubiquitous family of Explorers, Expeditions, Range Rovers and the like. The institution of these new standards, to be required in all 2004 models, will be helped along by the EPA's strict new directive to refiners: Reduce the sulfur content in gasoline by 90 percent. This two-prong approach is critical, because cars using gas with lower sulfur levels produce less pollution - and make automakers' anti-smog adjustments more effective...
...tangle of product lines (raise your hand if you know the difference between the PowerBook 3400c/180 and the PowerBook 1400cs/166) with just four: the G3 desktop and laptop machines for the Mac-friendly publishing and graphics communities; the iMac desktop consumer machine; and the last pillar of Jobs' four-prong strategy, the consumer laptop iBook...
...weeks ago I found a similar letter in my mailbox. Yet another prong of Harvard's fundraising campaign, this time the joke was on me, rather than my grandparents or even my parents slaving away to put two daughters, a smaller family than many undergraduates I know, through college. It was fundraising time for seniors, and I was about to enter the pool of possible philanthropists. Working at the Radcliffe College Fund during my first year at the College, I learned the fundraising lingo, learned about the prizes for those who raised the most and how to carefully ease alums...
...second prong of Jones' defense is the argument that only skilled terrorists could have made the bomb, not two drifters like McVeigh and Nichols. Jones and a team of investigators traveled to Belfast to speak with experts about ammonium nitrate bombs. Says Jones: "I talked to a bunch of them, and they said to me, 'I'm not saying your man couldn't have done it. What I'm saying to you is that no one else has ever done...
...children's studies program is just one of five prongs of the HPSC. The others concentrate more on substantive change. They are: Program Evaluation, which evaluates the strength and effectiveness of programs that affect children, such as HAND; Innovative Schools Initiative, which looks at how schools are structured, organized and managed; Children's Health, a two-part program with Cambridge Rindge and Latin and Maynard Elementary School, designed to both establish a curriculum based on issues such as drugs and sex and to evaluate kindergarten entry point; and finally, the non-operational Math and Science prong, which is designed...