Word: smarten
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...national one would be tricky, given that utility regulation in the U.S. is localized.) Green energy leaders would also like to see an executive order that would greatly expand the federal government's procurement of renewable energy - a smart idea, easily doable - plus a major initiative to update and smarten the nation's aging, overworked electrical grid. That last item is a necessity, if the country has any hope of scaling up alternatives. A report published Nov. 10 by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation found that without drastic investment in a better grid, scaling up intermittent renewables like wind...
...carry a human body. RI-MAN can also pinpoint where sound is coming from and "smell" eight scents--including urine, which signals "diaper change." But RI-MAN needs a brainpower boost before it's ready for consumers. It can't distinguish faces yet, for example. Scientists say they'll smarten it up soon, but will they give this tin man a heart...
...Falter, political scientist at the University of Mainz. Merkel has tripped several times out of the starting gate. She floated the idea of raising the country's 16% value-added tax to help pay for social security benefits; voters hate the idea of paying higher taxes. An attempt to smarten up her image - party spin doctors ensured sweat stains under her arms were digitally removed from photographs taken at the Bayreuth Festival - backfired when the unretouched photo was widely published. And then, in a live television interview in July, Merkel confused net and gross wages when calculating how her plans...
...It’s not going to be closed at all if the owner’s board doesn’t smarten up,” she said. “We don’t want anything unreasonable. They’re trying to pacify...
With more comprehensive data, it would be necessary to smarten the CUE guide’s rather rudimentary website. Personalized responses from students should appear online to be accessed by perusing Harvard students—with particularly telling responses excerpted and included in the course write-ups—as well as the statistics from the course’s rating results. An integration of the online course catalogue, class syllabi and a revamped CUE guide would also be an effective tool—giving students a variety of necessary class-selection resources at their fingertips...