Utilities reported about 21, 000 customers without power in west and north Georgia and metropolitan Atlanta.

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The New York Metropolitan Area is the primary force driving development of power markets in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.

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The Metropolitan Police said they "do not have the power to move somebody on just because he or she chooses to sleep on street".

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In Arizona, firefighters were building containment lines around a 3, 700-acre blaze on the Tonto National Forest to try to protect electric transmission lines that provide power to the state's major metropolitan areas.

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The Tokyo metropolitan government is trying to break its contract to supply power to the Tokyo Electric Power Co.

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The storm hit California and Arizona on Monday with strong wind and rain, knocking out power to thousands and kicking up a dusty haze in the metropolitan Phoenix area.

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Some of the metropolitan regions that have the highest per capita GDPs in the world based on purchasing power are not particularly dense.

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It would have the power to summon evidence before somebody starts shredding it either at News of the World of the Metropolitan Police.

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Around the New York metropolitan area, many victims of Superstorm Sandy were mercifully spared another round of flooding, property damage and power failures.

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