But woops, it turns out that plug-in car energy-saving argument is running out of juice.
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It was like watching Ed Sullivan introduce the Beatles, and Bill Belichick yanking out the plug.
Drive into downtown San Diego, and a city official in a jumpsuit will probably run out and plug it in for you.
The Department of Homeland Security, created in 2002, first set out to plug the holes in U.S. law enforcement and beef up manpower.
However, the Kremlin has been spending heavily to prop up the rouble, bail out banks and plug holes in its budget.
And of course, Toyota has come out with its Plug-in hybrid Prius, selling 12, 750 units in the last last year alone.
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On Montgomery Lake, an oxbow of the Ocmulgee River near Helena, Perry threw out a wooden plug called the Creek Chub Wiggle Fish and reeled in 22 pounds and 4 ounces of fishing immortality.
Sir Timothy said a graduate tax could not be ruled out in Scotland to plug the gap.
The device includes a fixed micro-USB connector and a pop-out flexible cable to plug into your computer or another power source.
"During the surgery, we go to the area that has been damaged, clean out scar tissue and plug in a new, engineered urethra, " said Atala.
Allen said that in preparation for the storm, crews had pulled the drill string out, put a plug known as a "packer" in the casing pipe and filled the riser with seawater so the pipe would be stable.
While Earth-Policy says that hybrids could slash U.S. gasoline use in half, it also points out that the same usage of plug-in hybrids over the same period of time could result in gasoline usage being cut by 70 percent.
"If you plug into any wired network out there, you can basically capture what is happening on that network, " he said.
The company is also building out a platform for other companies to plug into its technology, expanding the uses of it.
In addition to the basic open-source components, the browser has also been augmented with out-of-the-box plug-ins, including the latest versions of Adobe FlashTM and a PDF reader.
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As long as the federal government is handing out money to encourage the development of plug-in cars in the U.S., General Motors says it will invest in the necessary technologies.
But the temptation to plug in and never log back out again is strong.
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Reformers cannot constantly wave this idea around as though they are the only ones who care about teacher quality, and then plug their ears whenever critics point out that tests are a very crude, very imprecise measure of student achievements and teacher quality.
He has all but ruled out raising the retirement age or cutting pensions to plug the gap in America's public pension system.
In theory a value investor could plug in high growth numbers and look out over the long-term just as well as a growth investor can.
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Moreover, the unit can be powered by either USB or your average AC plug, and even includes digital audio out for a (somewhat) "true" high definition experience.
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Of course, if you want to forge all four rings, well, you may as well log out of the rest of your life and just plug yourself into Battle.net.
Crew members tried to plug the tear with wooden pegs and pump the water out.
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It now seems ready to pull the plug and more determinedly go forward in its LTE build out utilizing the extensive frequency spectrum that Clearwire has at 2.5 Ghz.
They also, in a smart bit of PR, launched a browser plug-in for Twitter users who wanted to strip out any mention of SXSW from their social media stream during March this year.
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Given the way my working life pans out I would indeed love to have a single basic computer which I then plug into accessories when I get to places.
For one thing, the Mahoney-McCann team should be able to figure out a way to drive home the huge advantage that Volt, as a plug-in hybrid, enjoys over the all-electric wanna-bes.
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In one final negative note, the phone takes one of the worst pages out of the Palm book and put plastic doors over not only the USB plug but the microSD slot and side-mounted headphone jack as well.
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Importantly, this mud also acts as a kind of plug in the hole, preventing any oil and gas from blasting up out of the hole.
Intel has already pushed Nvidia out of the business of supplying computer chipsets, the digital nervous system that all processors plug into to power PCs and laptops.
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