Takeshita still has an awesome ability to attract political money, always an important power lever in Japan.
Instead, she seems caught up in nostalgia for the era when her father, Sukarno, was president, Indonesia was an important diplomatic power and there was no talk of separatism.
She said that "we support this Day to emphasize the importance of freedom of expression and free flow of diversified opinions because Media - old and new, print or broadcasting, text-based or visual - have an increasingly important power to boost dynamic and positive change, positive social transformation in the country".
"What we consider serious in this context is the 'educational', or rather, the 'diseducational' power that an important body such as the Federal Council of Medicine has - the power to create mentalities, " Bishop Joao Carlos Petrini, from the powerful National Conference of Bishops, told newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.
"Power is an important part of what we hope the team will be, " Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said.
By upholding the mandate under the taxing power, they say, the Court has allowed the health care law to stand, but has also taken an important step toward limiting the power of the federal government by ruling, for only the third time since the FDR administration, that Congress exceeded its power under the commerce clause.
And Kennedy's star power has been an important draw for new donors at these events.
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Officials at PacifiCorp, which supplies power to six states, said wind power will be an important part of diversifying energy sources.
Finally, resistance workouts, especially those that include exercises focusing on balance and power, play an important role to increase strength and stability.
Nuclear power had formed an important part of the government's plans to boost clean energy production to help hit its target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 80% by 2050.
Execution of these newly recognized responsibilities would prove an important vehicle for the expansion of federal power that characterized the transformed postwar nation.
An important step in this process is formalizing a power-sharing arrangement, which the Iraqi leaders are currently undertaking to do.
It is an important step that the EFSF is to have to power to intervene in secondary markets.
The development and implementation of new storage and memory architectures, combined with evolved storage system management can play an important role in controlling the growth of data center power use even as the total amount of content in data centers grows.
Her colleagues and clients say Schaefer serves as an important reminder that people don't need money or power to make a difference.
The first application the firm has in mind is a niche in this market, but it is an important one: stabilising the grid in order to prevent power failures.
Regardless of whether or not solar ever becomes a big power player, it will certainly play an important role for a growing number of people who have few other options.
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"Taking this major step toward cleaning up the Capitol Power Plant's emissions would be an important demonstration of Congress' willingness to deal with the enormous challenges of global warming, energy independence and our inefficient use of finite fossil fuels, " they wrote.
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Women play an important role in government and have a fair amount of social power.
"And that for us was an important consideration where we needed to identify what was causing these power- and battery-related incidents, " he said.
President Akayev has promised he will step down in 2005 -- an important milestone in a region where rulers have refused to cede power.
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Steven Sadove, chairman and CEO of Saks Fifth Avenue, is optimistic despite the fact that tourists, an important consumer for Saks, are taking a hit to their spending power since the Euro has weakened against the dollar.
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"California Valley Solar Ranch will be an important component of our multi-technology portfolio of clean, zero-emission solar power facilities, " said Tom Doyle, president of NRG Solar.
Both iLoud and iLoud MINI are also equipped with a high-performance Li-Ion rechargeable battery with smart power-management features that reduce its power consumption, making possible to go long periods without recharging, an important factor for mobile users.
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The increasing purchasing power of its population, and pent-up demand for goods, is an important factor in its solid economy and relative protection from the woes of the world.
When basic access to galactic music libraries is free, and recommendations come from peers rather than from institutional power brokers, the door is wide open for peer-to-peer platforms to take an important role in marketing, distributing and delivering music.
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The company, which provides power to some of Japan's most important economic areas, has already raised electricity prices in an attempt to offset the rising costs.
The company reckons the new transistors, which should be available later this year, will consume half as much power as its existing offerings, making them particularly suitable for mobile computing, where battery life is an important selling point.
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