According to a new report from Pike Research, annual worldwide sales of these vehicles, collectively referred to as electric vehicles (EVs), will reach 3.8 million by 2020.

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Any way one cuts it, the only solution to this fiscal mess is some kind of substantial restructuring of these three entitlement programs, collectively referred to as the third rail of American politics because any politician who touches them dies.

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The rebels referred to themselves collectively as the Free Syrian Army.

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