Word: systemize
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...company plans to deliver its first Karma roadster early next year. It is getting $528 million in low-interest, government-guaranteed loans to refine its plug-in hybrid-drive system, originally developed by its partner Quantum Technology of Irvine, Calif., with grants from the U.S. Department of Defense. Using that technology, the Karma can travel for 50 miles on lithium-ion batteries before the gasoline engine turns on to act as a generator, Fisker says. The preliminary price tag for the Karma...
Harvard College Library is going online! No, they're not putting up online versions of all the texts in the Harvard library system (Only in FlyBy's dreams). In fact, the library's new initiative involves the biggest source of procrastination ever. Facebook...
...care and economic recession. Moreover, President Obama hasn’t even completed one year in office. Complex issues can’t be solved overnight, and he inherited quite a mess to begin with. We should also remember that the president is just one man. In a political system that rests, ideally, on a balance of power, effective leadership requires collaboration and compromise. That said, this president is sometimes too collaborative, too willing to compromise on matters of both policy and principle. His Achilles heel is that he wants everyone to like him. Indeed, so far, Obama has failed...
...together five separate pieces of legislation - two distinct Senate bills and three from the House. They must both satisfy the competing (and often conflicting) political and ideological interests within their party, and still produce a coherent bill that does not do more harm than good to a health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of the economy. (See pictures of the angry health-care debates...
...financed, and should it include a tax hike on the wealthy or a tax on high-end insurance plans? There will also be renewed debate over some of the side issues that have arisen, such as coverage of abortion and whether illegal immigrants might find ways of entering the system...