Several companies are working on higher-power microwave tumor-zappers that may do the job faster.
When they refused permission to operate on religious grounds, the hospital went to a higher power - the judiciary.
In fact, the only thing they'd probably have to worry about would be the low-margin mini really cannibalizing thes sales of their non-Intel, non-DVR higher-margin iMac and Power Mac products (at least for the time being).
The powerful reported significantly higher lottery winnings than the low-power group, even though both groups had the same odds of winning.
On Tuesday, Trina Solar announced its earnings surged during the fourth quarter, beating expectations, on strong demand for solar-power systems and higher profit margins.
How much more difficult would parenting become if we were unable to fall back on that all-purpose appeal to a higher power: "Do as I say, not as I do"?
The company's catalog proclaims: "Tame your tummy and create an hourglass silhouette with Super Higher Power, our new comfortable yet powerful high-waisted hosiery shaper.... Now, you've got the power!"
Producer Tim Flaherty has a history of keeping an eye out for his higher power, having already put on the one-nun comedy "Late Nite Catechism" in the basement of a Lutheran church.
As Californians contemplate higher electric bills, the North American Electric Reliability Council -- a power producers' group based in Princeton, N.
For we would all look up, say yes, those costs are higher than the benefits and move to non-CO2 emitting methods of power generation and transport.
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True to its name, the IntelliBright algorithms have the ability to intelligently analyze image content real-time and create brighter, higher contrast images without raising net power consumption.
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That market power has allowed New York-Presbyterian to charge higher prices to insurers, because our employer-sponsored insurance system pressures insurers to accept whatever hospitals want to charge.
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But in recent years -- from "rubber rooms" for teachers who can't be fired in New York City to the prison workers unions in California that helped to drive prison spending to nearly the same level as all higher education in the state -- resentments have been stirring against the power and alleged abuses of public sector unions.
But at the same time, small businesses face higher premiums because of their limited purchasing power, and they tend to employ lower-income workers.
That certainty has economic value as a hedge, even if the capital cost of wind and solar power stations is, at the moment, higher than that of coal-fired ones.
Devesh Garg, founder and CEO of Tilera, says his multi-core processors will lead to higher computing performance but at a fraction of the power, latency, size and cost of other solutions.
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Power prices in New York City are already nearly two-thirds higher than the average price paid by consumers in other U.S. cities during any given month of the year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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The White House even fought to the bitter end for a cap-and-trade bill that the House passed and would have imposed higher costs for electric power, transportation, manufacturing and most goods and services as this tax flowed down the energy chain.
This specific architecture was selected, largely because it utilizes an evolvable development approach, which allows NASA to address high-cost development activities early on in the program and take advantage of higher buying power before inflation erodes the available funding of a fixed budget.
But nuclear-power stations and wind turbines are expensive, so, whoever wins, higher bills for domestic consumers seem inevitable.
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But the IMF plied its poisonous brew of budgetary austerity, higher taxes and debasement of the currency, particularly after Jean-Bertrand Aristide was restored to power in 1994.
The government has also begun to fear that freer prices mean higher prices, and that new power stations will be unable to compete with old hydro-electric plants, whose initial costs have long been written off.
Ironically, given its far greater effort to tackle climate change, the European Union has seen its emissions rise, partly because its higher gas prices (linked to oil) have led to an increase in coal-fired power generation.
Poland relies on highly CO2-emitting coal for most of its electricity and argues that higher carbon prices would mean higher power prices, or even a shift to natural gas that would increase its dependence on Russia.
Its start-up costs are as high as drilling for oil, and may be higher than for coal power stations.
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"While there is enough generation capacity to mean that widespread power-cuts are still unlikely, narrower margins mean the risks of outages are higher and scarcity of energy could also feed into possible price rises in future, " he said.
Construction, maintenance and power transmission requirements will be much more costly than land-based installations, requiring even higher subsidies and consumer pain.
Most studies to date suggest that shale-gas wells may lead to slightly higher carbon-dioxide emissions than conventional-gas ones because more wells are needed and fracking requires lots of power from diesel motors.
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Big shipping firms now support an official push for higher-quality fuels. (A new report suggests cleaning up marine fuels could save many lives.) Power plants are adding scrubbers.
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The company noted that European coal generation increased 13% in June over the last 12 months as a result of nuclear cutbacks, a knee-jerk reaction to nuclear power given the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, and higher gas prices, further feeding demand for coal.
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