At that time Elf took over one of the biggest businesses in eastern Germany, the Leuna oil refinery and its network of petrol stations, as part of the wholesale privatisation of former East German state assets.
The government is also providing funds for the construction of a nationwide network of charging stations.
The network of base stations, keeping them all on, running the system itself, having management and the biggie, buying the spectrum in the first place.
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And it will achieve this goal only by selling the network of petrol stations associated with its lesser Italiana Petroli brand, a deal approved this week by Italy's competition authorities.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said that their analysis of temperature data from a global network of weather stations indicated that the average temperature for 2012 was 0.57C above the 20th Century average.
The jeeps travel on rudimentary dirt tracks (built to access Tahiti's network of hydroelectric stations) and skirt sheer drops overlooking vast river valleys while going up hills so steep you feel like gravity is no longer on your side.
In Israel, Better Place recently marked the inauguration of a network of battery switching stations that allows motorists to drive the length of the country.
Better Place provides the charge spots, network of battery switch stations, and customer service.
Depleted batteries would be removed, and fresh ones installed, at a network of battery swapping stations operated by Better Place.
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The latest shakeup comes as Better Place struggles to gain traction in Israel and Denmark for its network of battery switch stations.
Better Place has also struck a deal with GM Holden to allow owners of the Volt plug-in electric hybrid to use its network of fixed charging stations.
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O'Brien also owns a network of 42 radio stations in eight European countries, a golf resort community in Portugal, a plane lessor with a fleet of 93 in Dublin and a firm, just two years old, that runs Internet job-recruiting sites in six countries, including eight in China.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, there are more than 5, 800 electric charging stations in the United States, but just two public charging stations in North Dakota, and zero in Wyoming (Tesla plans to have a nationwide network of its so-called Supercharger stations within a couple of years).
This company, much ballyhooed in the media, has had the intriguing idea of creating a network of battery charging and swapping stations to facilitate the growth of electric vehicles.
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Better Place has built a network of battery-switching stations in Israel that lets drivers traverse the entire country, swapping depleted batteries for fresh ones much like they would fill up at a gas station.
The minister said funds were allocated for "thousands of new carriages across the country, electrifying swathes of the rail network, and redeveloping many of our great railway stations" to address "crowding, cut journey times and improve passenger experience".
It is also in the process of establishing a network of Supercharger electric car recharging stations across the country.
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The United States has a network of listening posts and radar stations across Colombia, built and manned by American technicians.
In the early days of FORBES magazine, which was founded 90 years ago, "network" referred to a chain of radio stations hooked up by wire--and, long before that, to intersecting roads, canals, railways and telegraph lines.
Liverpool Central has the highest footfall on the Merseyrail network and is one of the busiest stations outside London.
Network affiliate stations are indeed part of late-night's resistance to change, said Christine Becker, an associate professor at Notre Dame University who writes the News For TV Majors blog.
The company also owns interests in 20 refineries scattered across Europe, the United States, China, and the French-speaking regions of Africa and the Caribbean and operates a network of nearly 15, 000 gas stations.
While News Corp. continued to expand in newspapers, as recently as 2007 buying Dow Jones, the focus of the company shifted toward film and television since the 1980s purchase of the 20th Century Fox film studio and a group of TV stations that formed the basis of the Fox broadcast network.
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On London's transport network, 88 Tube stations (out of more than 270) and 13 bus stations provided amenities for millions of travellers and the report urged the mayor to "push Crossrail to include public toilets at its stations".
These include the international seismic monitoring network, the international array of sea level measuring stations (the Global Sea Level Observing System, the Global Telecommunication System of the World Meteorological Organization and associated public geostationary satellites) and the internet.
The network just released ratings for Sunday that show the network was more popular than any of the national news stations.
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Huawei now commands a premium for some of its higher-end cellular network base-stations that combine old and new networks in one small unit, the executives said.
As reported on the website Real Science, forty percent of weather stations in the Historical Climatology Network set their all-time record maximum temperature during the 1930s.
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The city of York just announced a plan to install a network of pay-as-you-go charging stations for electric vehicles, the first such system to launch in the UK. York is already home to 12 free charging points, but these are located in lesser-known areas such as private parking lots.
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