In Star Trek, travel beyond the edge of the Galaxy caused some people to develop god-like powers.
Recovery workers like John Powers, meanwhile, say the hazards are part of the job.
Reopened two years ago after an extensive renovation, the court contains marble and bronze figurative works by 19th and 20th Century American sculptors like Hiram Powers, Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Paul Manship.
Thanks to our relative demographic dynamism, the America of 50 years hence may not only have more workers per retiree than countries like Japan and Germany, but also have more than emerging powers like China and Brazil.
Apart from biggish powers like Russia, the war on piracy is attracting small countries.
Starving artists would often sell potential goldmines to major powers like DC for a pittance.
Some may seek a more independent stance or try to strike a separate peace with emerging powers like China.
But just like the Austin Powers parodies, such knowingness recognises that Bond is essentially a product of the early days of mass consumerism.
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And finally, since agricultural trade reform is so central to big emerging powers like Brazil and India, it would help strengthen our relations with them.
Turkmenistan then focused its attention more heavily on alternative markets, looking to send its abundant natural gas supplies to other regional powers like China and Iran.
And it will signal to regional powers like Pakistan and Iran that the United States plans to remain engaged in Afghanistan for many years into the future.
Many of the other nations in the G20, including huge economic powers like Japan and China, haven't shown much interest in introducing changes to their bonus regimes.
Samore and his colleagues believe there are no other options because all other options involve placing responsibility for contending with North Korea on non-Western powers like China, South Korea and Japan.
But Alterman also fears that an Iraq left without U.S. support could turn into a center for international terrorism and a proxy battlefield for regional powers like Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
There was a way to do it, and it had to do with the catch that comes with open source--software like Linux that powers millions of desktops and Apache that runs 70% of the country's Web servers.
At least that's the case into the fall of 2007, as Argentina and Peru join traditional economic powers like the U.S., Canada and Hong Kong among the countries with the most robust job outlooks for the third quarter of the year.
Although the SNP has controlled the Scottish Parliament since 2011, only about a third of Scots favour breaking with the union (see chart), though most would like to see more powers shift from London to Edinburgh.
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Back in the heyday of using trusts for shifting income, if a trust contained one of those powers, like the power of the grantor to withdraw property from the trust and replace if with property of equal value, someone who thought the trust was being used to shift income, would consider that power to be a defect.
Giving away the easement in a case like that is like me renouncing my super powers.
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The whole thing was designed to keep states together when they were extremely jealous of their own powers, more like separate countries, on a hesitant journey towards becoming a fully fledged nation state.
"RoSPA would like to see the police given powers to breath test people anywhere and at any time, " he said.
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, would act "more and more like a government with all the powers" needed to govern.
Less noticed by the Davos crowd was Ms. Merkel's vision for a federal Europe in which the Brussels-based European Commission would become "more and more like a government, " sucking powers away from national capitals.
Last week, a report from the influential Institute of Medicine argued that the FDA should have significantly more powers to prevent disasters like the recall of the arthritis pill Vioxx by Merck two years ago.
They face the drastic prospect of having to discard plans set out in the constitution for a new, more formal European layer of government, including an embryonic EU diplomatic service and more EU-level powers over key areas like immigration.
Last week, a report from the influential Institute of Medicine argued that the FDA should have significantly more powers to prevent disasters like the recall of the arthritis pill Vioxx by Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) two years ago.
The states would like to have their legislative and administrative powers defined.
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In making this split, BP is now looking to create a new safety unit that will rule the groups operations like an inquisition as Dudley grants it powers to audit on an ongoing basis every single operation around the world.
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