Word: replenishing
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...range of ways to endow Iraqis with power offers "no really good solutions," says a senior intelligence official. Washington would prefer to keep the Governing Council, which it handpicked, or expand it to "replenish" the group with broader representation than the current lineup commands. But neither of those arrangements, if managed unilaterally by the U.S., would look more legitimate to Iraqis than the current council, which is broadly dismissed as nothing but a U.S. proxy. Another option bandied about is a grand conference of religious, tribal and ethnic leaders modeled on Afghanistan's loya jirga, which would pick an interim...
...hearts year after year are Fitzsimmons and Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73. Every fall and winter, they complete the Herculean task of rejecting nearly 19,000 students—a job made even tougher by the need to replenish one-quarter of the rosters of 41 competitive Division I sports teams each year...
...popular--too popular. "Four in 10 stores couldn't keep the item on the shelf," says Ashton, "and we were losing money because of it." He needed to track this item and others through the supply chain so clerks would know when to reorder and replenish the shelves. It took Ashton a year to identify RFID as a technology that would solve his problem and to hook up with two M.I.T. professors who could help him. The profs, Sanjay Sarma and David Brock, had their own obsession: getting a robot to recognize anything, whether a sheep or a car, that...
Someday soon, some bright spark will make a video game version of E3, the annual games conference in Los Angeles. You will play a journalist running from booth to booth, trying to avoid being deafened by hundreds of booming sound systems. Replenish your energy meter with $10 hamburgers! Try not to stare at the scantily-clad Booth Babes! Find parking! The ultimate aim will be to play a game for more than five minutes without a company media rep telling you how great it is. If their presence overloads your hype meter, it's game over...
...gave him an idea, and the next time she lost a tooth, he placed it in a liquid used to culture cells. Back at the lab, he extracted the pulp and found that it contained a number of stem cells, those special progenitor cells that can be used to replenish various types of tissue. (He also gave Julia back her tooth...