Contemporary Examples. 1  reality check: Perfect is never on the menu, especially in Albany. 2  reality check No. 1: Immigration reform is only dead if the House of Representativesâspecifically Speaker Boehnerâdecides it is. 3  Progressives who hope, in 2014, to regulate their way out of this problem need a reality check. The Answer to the McCutcheon Decision Is More Big Money in Politics Jonathan Rauch April 3, 2014 reality check: 90 percent of Americans rarely agree on anything.
Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-raised Fish (ELAP) ELAP provides financial assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish for losses due to disease, certain adverse weather events or loss conditions, including blizzards and wildfires, as determined by the Secretary.
Definition-Elapsed Time. Elapsed time is simply the amount of time that passes from the start of an event to its finish. In simple terms, elapsed time is how much time goes by from one time (say 3:35pm in the intro example) to another (6:20pm in the intro example). An important tool that goes hand and hand with elapsed time is the clock. Here are a few key things we need to remember before we move on to calculating elapsed time. 1  The hour hand on the clock is the shorter hand. 2  The minute hand on the clock is the longer hand.