Not only would my people just continue to work off the hosted system, but I could find a Starbucks with power, get back online and get back to work too.

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But the age-old power and patronage system has reasserted itself with a vengeance, especially in the rural areas, with 60% of the seats likely to have been won by candidates propped up by the two parties.

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India, with its messy democratic system, might well have staying power, but no one sees it as a threat to the United States.

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We also saw a huge opportunity, everyone had ideas about how the financial system could be improved, but the power to do something with those ideas seemed to be held by a few.

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But after benefiting from his Kers power-boost system to contest the lead with Webber and Barrichello going into the first corner, Hamilton was tapped from behind by the eventual winner and got a puncture.

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But there is a limit to how much Washington can dictate in a system where so much power lies with the states and those elected judges.

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Wales had a "lop-sided" system of devolution, with law-making powers granted by a referendum in March, but far less power over its finances.

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