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.
When time passes by, you say it elapses. Four years elapse while you are in high school. Nine months elapse while you are in the womb. If two weeks have elapsed between your tennis lessons, there has been a two-week lapse between sessions. The word elapse comes from the Latin word elabi which means to slip away.. Time is one of those things that really does tend to slip away, unless you're sitting through a lecture on the nature of time.