Cars, by contrast, are tradable, so not every state has its own car plant.

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The 63-acre estate even has its own power plant to keep things humming.

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Mr Franzia's firm, the Bronco Wine Company, brings California's excess grapes to its plant in Napa Valley from all over the state. (The firm's use of the Napa name on its labels is, as a result, currently the subject of a lawsuit.) Bronco owns an efficient modern plant and has its own distribution network, so it can deliver wine directly to Trader Joe's warehouses, which keeps costs down.

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He wants the co-op to own its own recycling plant and has traveled to Europe (on Avina's dime) to talk to waste management companies and charitable funders about why help for waste pickers should be included in any scheme to reduce carbon emissions.

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For the carmaker it also means that every assembly plant has to be surrounded by its own suppliers.

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But Qualcomm has done no manufacturing of its own since selling its last handset plant in 2000.

ECONOMIST: Innovation

It has the authority to open schools, create its own criminal justice system, and open a nuclear power plant -- although it hasn't chosen to do any of those things yet.

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And, even if Juragua were never finished, Florida has several potential radiation sources of its own not just the state's own (safer) nuclear plant, but also its active phosphate industry.

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The four-country replacement project has strong Latvian support, but Poland is lukewarm and Estonia is considering a small nuclear-power plant of its own if the joint one falls through.

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