The difference is that Ken Livingstone was prepared to let go of power at the centre.
The bullet to bite is so large that we're more willing to dribble out the price of sending out repair crews, and to put up with the far more substantial costs borne by individuals and businesses that go without power for hours, days and sometimes weeks.
"If things go wrong with nuclear power, they go terribly terribly wrong, " he said.
Hurricanes and blizzards have been forcing millions to go without electric power, making utility customers more appreciative of the services they often take for granted.
The tragic hero, having gained great power, would get greedy (koros), grow over-confident to the point of overwhelming arrogance bordering on moral blindness (hubris), go mad with power (ate), and then get brought low (nemesis).
The fundamental principle is a simple one that is apparently difficult to implement: Keep doing the same things that brought you to power in the first place, and don't let success and power go to your head.
When things go well, this Power Woman and her department are virtually invisible.
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Or is it the confidence and power that go along with having money?
Billions of dollars are tied up in construction for nearly a decade (if things go well) before power--and therefore revenue--start flowing.
The attorney general said the US Congress had the previous October granted President Bush the power to go to war with Iraq.
When switched off, many appliances do not actually kill the power but go into a standby mode instead sucking electricity, vampire-like, from the plug.
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When certificates expire unexpectedly, vital health and financial information stops flowing, power grids go dark, and business and personal transactions stop in their tracks.
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Unfortunately, the consequence of the rule has forced runners to go underground while their power continues to be evident, and possibly growing with time.
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He's particularly urging electricians to go back to the power station.
One proposal is to give regulators the power to go through the books of the biggest providers and challenge them to prove their business models are sound.
He can go past people with power and pace, but I've lost count of the number of times I've looked up and seen him stuck on the halfway line.
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My story Sunday saying that the danger from radiation in Japan will remain small even if things at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant go horribly wrong generated a lot of response.
And that let me know that, you know, children, no matter what nationality they are or what religion they are, they can learn early in life to go to a higher power.
Those powers include considerable patronage -- the ability to appoint bishops, government ministers, heads of public bodies and so on -- as well as the power to go to war, sign treaties and change the law through the little-understood Privy Council.
Looking to the future, the state government of Rajasthan and the central government in Delhi have decided to go for cleaner solar power, even though, on present figures, the electricity it produces costs three times as much as that produced by coal.
No US politician would go up against the assembled power of the doctors of the nation, would they?
With not enough water to go through the turbines, power stations are not firing on all four cylinders.
Nomura forecast domestic confidence to improve, providing reconstruction post-quake and the TEPCO nuclear power plant recovery go well, within three to six months.
This Sunday, countless children will buy power tools, go to a ball game, or fire up the grill to celebrate their dads and all that they do.
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This puts the onus on their followers--in particular, on close advisers who must be independent enough, and intrepid enough, to speak truth to power when things go wrong.
Obstacles to trading gas and power must also go.
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Of the thousands of power engineers and bureaucrats India pay salary for, not one among them insisted that silt removal from dams is mandatory and without doing it, power generation cannot go on.
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