• And then, finally, we point out the investments that the President made in the auto industry of the future -- in battery plants, in other high-mileage vehicles.

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  • Leak-proof and easily stackable, case-ready packages are produced in USDA-inspected plants and have a longer shelf life.

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  • Some of the steps that we took during the lame duck session, the payroll tax, the extension of unemployment insurance, the investment in -- or the tax breaks for business investment in plants and equipment -- all those things have helped.

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  • But researchers think its origins lie further down the food chain - in plants, small mammals or insects.

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  • He didn't have to travel far from his home in Minneapolis to find a camp where Hispanic women, migrant workers in food-processing plants, have temporary quarters.

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  • We also expect to be announcing groundbreaking plants for commercial scale -- cellulosic and advanced biorefinery plants -- in the next two years.

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  • This alloy isn't new--it's been used as a neutron absorber in nuclear power plants--but hafnium's use as a chip insulator required a fabrication breakthrough.

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  • Their modular hydroponic system -- where plants sit in a soil-free set up with nutrients delivered through irrigation channels -- can be retrofitted to just about any wall.

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  • It must be burned in power plants at the mouth of the mine, yet environmentalists will oppose any expansion in coal-fired lignite plants.

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  • The rise of solar power in Germany is directly related to the country's phase-out of nuclear power plants -- however in Japan, the issue of nuclear power is back in the news.

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  • If built as planned, Shell's two GTL plants (one scheduled to open in 2008-09 and the second in 2010-11) will have a combined daily capacity of 140, 000 barrels, as compared with Sasol's two 34, 000-barrel-a-day plants in Nigeria and in Qatar.

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  • Hydroponics and aeroponics - a type of hydroponics, but rather than growing in nutrient-rich water, grows in the air and the plants get sprayed with nutrients - technology is increasingly being utilised by businesses themselves.

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  • This latest incident comes just over a week after inspectors found horse DNA in meat labelled as beef in three Polish meat-processing plants, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw reports.

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  • This is already happening: Kingsnorth, if constructed, would be only one of six new coal plants planned, and there are gas-fired plants in the pipeline too.

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  • Miller is perhaps better known for journeying across small-town Texas to rally ranchers in opposition to TXU's plans for more coal-fired plants, an effort that catapulted her to the central role in a recent Robert Redford-narrated documentary, Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars.

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  • These are the job-creating businesses likely to be hit hardest by the tax deal, which will in turn result in diminished after-tax funds to reinvest in plants, equipment and employees.

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  • "Inspired by fireflies... our team of Stanford-trained PhDs are using off-the-shelf methods to create real glowing plants in a do-it-yourself bio lab in California, " said project leader Antony Evans.

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  • Earlier this week the giant power utility AEP announced that, in a settlement with the EPA and several states, it was shuttering three coal-fired plants in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky with 2, 000 megawatts of generation capacity.

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  • Indeed, they say high energy prices are encouraging the closure in Europe of energy-intensive plants for example, those manufacturing steel or aluminum in favor of imports from outside the region from manufacturing facilities that sometimes are less energy-efficient.

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  • The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, which began a little more than 10 years ago in response to the Bush administration's plan to build hundreds of coal-fired power plants, has successfully opposed the vast majority of proposed new plants and helped to retire 130 of the dirtiest, most-polluting existing coal plants in the United States.

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  • Plans to open 10-12 new plants in China to manufacture soft drinks, non-carbonated beverages and snacks.

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  • Buyers were happy to have raw commodities grown in Africa but not ready-to-eat food processed in plants there.

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  • But the researchers say their mercury-eating plants could be grown in mercury-polluted environments.

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  • What's more, later research would reveal that genes that create this kind of RNA--known as RNAi, for RNA interference--existed in plants, fruit flies and even people.

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  • The gas filling stations supply to vehicles driven by compressed natural gas, and the government hopes that the gas saved will be used to increase electricity production in gas-fired power plants.

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  • They will take up snowboards, skis, motorbikes and snowmobiles and launch themselves high into the crisp Colorado air, delighting millions of viewers while trying to avoid bone-crushing face-plants in the snow.

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  • But that still leaves the problem of smoothing production at the factory to preserve the economies of scale, which even in modern scaled-down plants require a throughput of about 250, 000 cars a year.

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  • Specifically, it copies advanced manufacturing systems such as those used in automobile assembly plants, which effects just-in-time finding and retrieving of components this way.

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  • He could gussy up the utility for sale, or he could pursue some of the outlandish strategies then in style, such as buying developing-country power plants or investing in unrelated businesses.

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