So we stopped at Dungannon where, oddly, the maintenance man turned up just as we were plugging up.

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This configuration gives it all wheel drive and also allows the ECU to either send power to or retrieve power from (in the form of regeneration) either motor to recharge the on-board battery pack -- which can also be juiced up by plugging into the wall.

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In November 2012, Superfly added an experimental feature to speed up the process of plugging in frequent flyer information.

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Drivers could fill up at home by plugging in the car's onboard compressor, but that would take four hours.

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Democrats, however, have proposed plugging tax loopholes as a means of making up the difference in revenue if the corporate rate is lowered.

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So provided that your speakers have their own power source, it's just a matter of charging these aluminum dongles up (a single charge lasts up to 10 hours), plugging them in and then pairing the right receiver with your audio source.

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They carry larger batteries than conventional hybrids, which, when recharged (by plugging them into the national grid) will give drivers up to 60 miles without any emissions at all.

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Did the owners and managers rely on sabermetrics, plugging in some performance statistics and acting upon formulas to build up their teams?

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Each bank is now plugging their 2009-2010 borrower population into their own templates to come up with who will get paid how much.

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And, you wake up one day only to find that you have built an organization by plugging holes and juggling balls.

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