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And the states have been acquiring ever more power over various parts of social policy.
Hardware and software makers pushed ever shorter product cycles and provided ever more power for the same or lower price, flooding customers with capacity.
Officials at the West Midlands government office argue that while their agency might not be as powerful as was once hoped, it still represents a significant reversal of the trend of the past generation, which has seen ever more power centralised in Whitehall.
In America, deregulation of the wholesale power market means ever larger quantities of power are travelling greater distances, yet investment in the grid has halved since the 1970s.
In the era of reality TV, social media fluency and the ever-growing list of figure heads, celebrities have more power than ever before to mobilize and engage large masses of people.
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Its introduction represented the biggest step function improvement in computing power ever, said Mr Hauser.
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Conservatives see it as an unfortunate historical accident that Mr Fischer and his disorderly friends ever came to power in September 1998.
But if Mr Assad junior ever comes to power, he might find the greatest threat to his rule coming not from disgruntled apparatchiks, but from Syria's broken-down economy.
In the process the Tory party ended up sounding censorious about single parents, thereby getting on the wrong side of a demographic trend that has helped to keep it out of power ever since.
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While the ever improving processing power and always-on broadband connectivity of the smartphone are the core assets, it has been interesting to see such widespread capabilities as the camera, GPS, and even audio jack used as hooks for new FinTech solutions.
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As lawmakers become ever so comfortable in the power and prestige of their positions, the most difficult action they could ever take is to admit failure and get out of the way.
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This is because readers have more power than ever, says Joel Rickett, an editor at Penguin.
No Turkish politician in power has ever risked being seen to prod Mr Denktash into making concessions.
However, in the emerging pull economy, users have more power than ever before.
However, if thorium power stations ever started to be used then there would be an end market for that thorium.
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After Cosimo's death in 1464, the Medici bank went downhill, though his descendants became ever more entrenched in power in Florence.
Corporate customers will demand sure-bet returns on their investment, and vendors will have to supply ever more service and power per dollar.
With 20 billion processors and controllers out there in the world, the chip has become one of the worst power consumers ever seen.
Making ever more complex and power-hungry processors to obey Moore's Law just limits how many chips you can fit in a given space, he said.
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Despite assertions by progressives who complain about stagnant wages, inequality and the (always) disappearing middle class, middle-class Americans have more buying power than ever before.
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It should be noted that no coach has ever had as much power as Paterno, but plenty have ascended to a nearly untouchable level of influence.
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Kaufman also underscores the creation of a new masters of the universe class who have under their aegis more assets, more money, more assets, more power than ever before.
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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In the long run, it may do the coal industry no good either: gas-fired power stations are becoming ever smaller, so more customers in future will generate their own power.
Sharon Feder : While we now have more women in power than ever before, we need more women in top positions in the corporate world and in government to represent the interests of women throughout the world.
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The current attack on cartels comes at a time when the temptation to strike cosy deals with competitors is stronger than ever, as pricing power remains weak and excess capacity abounds in the wake of the global economic slowdown.
Until now the government's plan to match power supplies with ever-growing demand has been based on liberalisation.
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