• Although it is, in some places, now easier than ever for a woman to acquire power without marrying it, economic inequality has not disappeared.

    NEWYORKER: It Ain��t Necessarily So

  • When people acquire power, they have the opportunity to abuse it, notes Michael J Perotti, a clinical and forensic psychologist in Loma Linda, California.

    BBC: Christopher Dorner: Police officers who kill

  • Of course, that's yet another unfair fact of life: really stupid people seem to acquire wealth and power with relative ease because they don't have the impediment of conscience or second-guessing reflection.

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  • There is no question that inequality has been rising in the United States and that it raises numerous issues concerning what is a fair distribution of income and wealth, what taxes we ought to raise, and how to prevent those who acquire great economic power from also gaining excessive political power (through campaign contributions).

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  • As regional governments acquire more and more power to regulate, businesses face higher compliance costs.

    ECONOMIST: How much is enough?

  • It also may not include a provision mandating major utilities acquire some of their power from renewable fuels.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Not only do overconfident people tend to acquire roles that afford power .

    FORBES: Study Finds That Having Power Can Make You Stupid

  • But I then traveled up to the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, a largely Tajik area, and there people were voting in significant numbers, not least because the Tajiks are a minority, want to, try to acquire a block of power in parliament to counterbalance what they say is a Pashtun-governated Karzai administration in Afghanistan.

    NPR: Afghanistan Officials Call Election a Success

  • Computers are well short of having the memory power needed to acquire and employ that experience.

    CNN: Roboticist sees improvisation through machine's eyes

  • The company has not specified what types of power plants it might acquire.

    FORBES: TXU Has Competitors

  • Would we acquire it to insure a balance of power?

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  • The British and French government, as the protectors of the Arab state, shall agree that they will not themselves acquire and will not consent to a third power acquiring territorial possessions in the Arabian peninsula, nor consent to a third power installing a naval base either on the east coast, or on the islands, of the red sea.

    BBC: Map detailing the Sykes-Picot agreement

  • Nigel Hart of hedge fund Reach Capital Management bought shares of French power utility Alstom following its announcement that it would acquire Spanish wind company Ecotecnia.

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  • Over the past several months, Sprint, which is in the process of being acquired by Japanese-controlled wireless carrier Softbank, has petitioned the FCC to drastically reduce the power levels of DISH's spectrum to further Sprint's desire to acquire the neighboring H Block spectrum, which today is essentially a vacant lot with no current licensees or users.

    ENGADGET: Dish's AWS-4 wireless spectrum standards approved by 3GPP

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