But Thomas Edison's idea--that power should be distributed as direct current--is being revived.
The current record-holder for current, as it were, is SuperPower, a firm based in Schenectady, New York.
The application could also be considered by a planning committee - as is the case in the current planning process - if the council deemed it appropriate, he added.
Brazil's case is that notwithstanding weaknesses such as large fiscal and current-account deficits, it is being unfairly punished because of Russia's debt default.
What is often forgotten about the current data "revolution" - as some people call it - is that recording the information of football matches goes back a long way.
Its current-account deficit is almost as big as Greece's (see chart 3).
These arguments center largely around the idea that current air pollution regulation is good enough as-is, and that any further restrictions are aimed at tackling environmental issues and climate change, both typically seen as luxuries in a down economy.
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Bullying behavior seems out of tune for a company that promotes a youthful, hipster image--with dancing silhouettes bopping to U2 on their music players in a current commercial--and is still remembered for a 1984 ad depicting IBM as Orwellian.
The Frenchman, who is understood to be stepping down from his current role as co-chief executive of the Swiss-based World Economic Forum, is credited with successfully restructuring the finances of the theme park near Paris and returning it to profit.
As Tim Lee of pi Economics points out, the Turkish lira is as strong against the euro as it was in 2002, even though its current-account deficit is running at around 7% of economic output and its inflation rate has been significantly higher than that of the euro zone over the past five years.
The foregoing description of the Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.
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But he thinks that business's case against the current system is based as much on self-interest as on morality.
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Ignoring the extraordinary insights emerging from modern science would be about as clever as believing the current technology explosion is short-lived and the Cloud will soon dissipate.
As well as attempting to break the current record - which is 40 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes - Mr Pitcher is raising money for two charities, Great Ormond Street Hospital and The C Group, which seeks to generate support for former Royal Marines.
That is a long-term hope: for the moment, the current administration is seen as the only way of running Rwanda.
The Chicago-born entrepreneur is probably best known as the former owner of Blockbuster Video and current part-owner of the Miami Dolphins, but garbage made him rich.
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On Iran and North Korea, what has the current policy -- which is largely the same as the ones of recent years -- produced other than given time to North Korea and Iran to advance their nuclear ambitions?
Everything else about the iPad announced Tuesday is the same as the current fourth-generation models: a 9.7-inch Retina display, a dual-core A6X processor, a FaceTime HD camera, 2 gigabtyes of RAM and an estimated 10 hours of battery life.
Although China still runs a huge current-account surplus, it is no longer accumulating foreign-exchange reserves at a rapid clip, as capital is flowing out of the country.
Stated more clearly, their current PE ratio is approximately the same as their expected long-term earnings growth rate.
First, MOT in its current state is a well-capitalized company, as evidenced by its balance sheet and income statement.
In current mental-health systems, diagnosis is often seen as necessary for accessing services.
There is cross-party support for changing the funding system as the parties agree that the current devolved funding settlement for Wales is no longer fit for purpose.
It looks to me as though stalemate still characterises the current state of play - which is why so much hinges on whether the Texas court at 0700 local time (1300 UK time) lifts the restraining order and would therefore allow either the sale of LFC to NESV to be completed or RBS to put the business into administration.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has met to issue a draft international standard of a new video-compression format that is twice as efficient as current standards.
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For purposes of respect, as well as providing context to current-day events and economic realities, it is important to acknowledge and understand this part of American history.
It provides high current income, and therefore is probably best thought of as a high-income asset class, perhaps a substitute or something that would go along with an investment in high dividend equities and obviously more high-quality bonds.
While we were somewhat conflicted, given that the shares now trade for 12 times book value, in the end we decided to hold on a while longer as the current price-to-sales ratio of less than two is quite low for this sector, and we have previously sold Avanex on two separate occasions at much higher prices.
"As such, Visa is largely immune from the current crisis facing credit-issuing banks in the U.S., " Gillen said.
In the first half of the current year, the margin earned by British Gas - that is profit as a percentage of sales - was 7.2%, compared with 6.9% in the first six months of last year, and 8.9% in the whole of 2010.
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