Word: use
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...prosecutors just delayed for a couple more weeks bringing the Madoff case to a grand jury. They undoubtedly are looking into other people, and I'm sure they are planning to use their extra time to investigate others connected to Madoff and the fraud...
...future of electric cars, it seems, relies not only on whether their purchase and use will catch on, but also on how good the car batteries can become: how much power they can hold, and for how long, has long been the technology's main stumbling point. GM's plans to build a lithium-ion battery plant in Michigan to assemble battery packs could presage a new technology race among the big three and companies in nations like India and China to see who can first build the battery that will make affordable, long-driving electric cars a reality...
...know what to do with that $173 million in uncashed checks investigators found in Bernie Madoff's desk drawer last week: send them to his feeder-fund customers. These people also could use the bling Bernie's been secretly sending to friends...
...President used the word in one sense or another more than a dozen times in the course of his parting exchange with the White House media corps. But it was the quality, rather than the quantity, of its use that was most telling. The more he uttered disappointment, the more fraught it sounded, until it was delivered not just with his signature shoulder-hunching emphasis but with a kind of protestation that seemed to carry the full weight of his historic fall from nearly 90% approval ratings after 9/11 to his current tally of less than 30%, a record...
...Council of Iraq to gain votes - are still real threats. "There are only three days between the local election and the 40th of Ashura [a holy day for Shi'ites]. Between now and the election, they will benefit from this," says al-Rubeiy. "I expect the religious parties to use sermons through [the holy month of] Muharram. They could spread very effective rumors that glorify...