There may be "rules, " but they change all the time, depending on the outcome of the struggles among--and inside--the factions and groups engaged in a never-ending competition for power.
The general assumption is that with increased competition, power plants will be built for less money, be more efficient and produce more power than they would under strictly government contracts, said McNeilly.
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"The future of France in the family of great nations depends on our capacity for initiative - a value totally at variance with an enarque culture based on zero risk and suspicious of any idea of competition or power-sharing, " they said.
Neither Jospin nor Chirac will want to be seen conceding any national interest at this time, and the best that can be hoped for is that they will agree to allow outside competition for power supplies to businesses in France, but not for household supplies.
The competition tests brain power, composure and, for the first time, knowledge of vocabulary.
He says Azul costs about half as much as the competition, when power and management costs are thrown in.
As a member of the Illinois Senate, where he has served since 1993, he fought tax increases, advocated greater competition in the power utility industry and supported "tort reform" legislation.
As well as announcing the doctorate and the companies vying for the Saltire Prize, Ms Sturgeon also launched a junior Saltire Prize photography competition called The Power of the Sea, with renowned Scots photographer David Eustace among the judges.
Nokia has historically lagged its competition as processing power goes, so it'll be great to see them start to match up with the Pres and the iPhones of the world -- at least as far as raw computational might goes, anyhow.
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The small, local combined-heat-and-power stations and wind turbines do receive subsidies in order to survive in competition with the big power stations.
That single prize (which didn't come close to covering the team's expenses) ushered in a new era of private space travel and, for XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis, demonstrated the power of competition.
His data predicts the U.S. will win 34 gold medals and 99 overall, pasting the competition, including rising power China, which will finish with 33 gold medals and 67 overall, according to Johnson.
Medicare Part D leverages the power of market competition to deliver prescription drug coverage to seniors.
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Yet another factor in antitrust is whether a company is using its dominant power to discourage competition.
By the Fall of 1993 , the humanitarian mission was entangled in the competition between Somali clans for power and resources.
Trade is about greater competition, which weakens the power of vested interests.
As Germany has slowly but steadily followed the U.S., Britain and other countries in opening up its power markets to competition, prices have begun to fall.
The launch of the euro, which threatens to intensify regional competition and to undermine pricing power, makes the need for firms to improve their financial performance all the greater.
It is hard to have pricing power when your competition also has more capacity than he wants, so he prices his product as low as he can to make a profit, but also to get the sale.
The judge in the American government's antitrust trial of the software behemoth ruled not only that it used its monopoly power to stifle competition and innovation in the computer industry, but also that Microsoft's business practices during the 1990s harmed consumers.
While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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Our plan will work by harnessing the power of the individual and the power of choice and competition.
As is, the robots entering the Robotics Challenge will likely be tethered to a power source throughout the competition.
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In countries that can, and do, use hydro as a power source, the competition for contracts is becoming fierce.
The ruling goes on to detail the ways in which Microsoft used its monopoly power to bludgeon the competition.
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China's lust for luxury may seem a pure power play, a competition to amass the greatest number of logos, but Pao says it has become more nuanced than that.
In some industries, increased competition has cut unions' bargaining power: car workers, for instance, famously militant in the 1970s, are far quieter now that production can be switched to overseas factories.
Google, for example, could soon be the subject of EU and US anti-trust investigations to determine if it is stymieing competition by illegally leveraging the vast power of its technologies and services -- a claim it denies.
Under the hood lies a 111HP motor powered by a 24 kWh battery that generates 147 pound-feet of torque -- not exactly the stump-pulling grunt of its new Yankee competition, but still plenty of power for such a small car.
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The agency has the power to ban athletes from competition and to revoke previous titles.
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