But those who want to forge ahead with their dream of "ever-closer union" in Europe should be warned that the further you shift power and decision-making away from nation states, the more dislocated and uninvolved citizens will feel.
Power and decision-making are largely in the hands of one person, Steve Jobs.
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But, more seriously, the coming of the euro is part of a process involving the centralisation of economic power and decision-making in pan-European bodies.
Handing AMs more law-making power would "give the politicians a comfort zone that they succeeded".
The proposed changes will also massively erode the existing full members' decision-making power.
Managers must learn to run loose hierarchies in which much of the decision-making power is pushed down the organisation.
Becoming a smaller institution with a greater emphasis on the deal-making power behind its Merrill Lynch unit makes sense.
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The SMILE Plug includes a 5V Lithium-Ion polymer battery for back-up power, making it ideal for learning environments where electrical power can be inconsistent.
While there is no negotiated outcome, the IGF informs and inspires those with policy-making power in both the public and private sectors.
But if we are to avoid this, the public will insist on a system of robust, independent regulation with credible sanction-making power.
Lula, who turned Ms Rousseff from a back-room technocrat into an election winner by campaigning at her side, has found his queen-making power has limits.
His star declined in the 1950s, but in his heyday, he had some of the myth-making power of his more durable contemporaries such as Stewart, Bogart and Tracy.
But they are still trivial in terms of decision-making power.
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Combine that decision-making power with the growing influence of women on the business side of the economy, and the stage is set for an interesting 10-20 years in front of us.
Gorbachev would follow through with the Shatalin-Yavlinsky plan for a 500 day transformation of the USSR, including a major devolution of political and economic decision-making power from the center to the individual republics.
The Sami Parliament is an advisory body without any decision-making power, and Mr Hivano sees that as a failing which is rapidly approaching crisis point in the dispute over the planned gold mine at Pasvik.
In other words, if Berlin wants to pass decision-making power to Brussels, it has to do so by passing a law in the lower house of the German parliament and having it approved in the upper house.
So one of the things that I've tried to start changing is giving more autonomy, more decision-making power and therefore more responsibility, if you will -- as well as more credit, if everything works out -- to the RHQs (regional headquarters).
They think voters are likelier to reject AV if told that it will mean more seats for the Lib Dems, and more king-making power after elections for third-party leaders such as Mr Clegg, whose reputation has been hurt by his various policy compromises since allying with the Tories.
The participants were also told whether they had high status or high power going into the decision-making process.
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His vision includes making the power-hungry Sun Belt city into a leader in the new energy economy through initiatives like the largest municipally owned mega solar project and the Decade of Downtown inner-city revitalization program.
In a second, unanimous ruling involving Duke Energy (nyse: DKE - news - people ), the justices said that before making major modifications to coal-fired power plants, plant owners must have a permit, which would require that the facility be outfitted with anti-pollution controls.
The Bruins were 0-4 on the power play, making them 4 for 43 on the season.
Voters seem to have rewarded the party for not making a grab for power - and Congress seems determined to exploit the strategy further.
More importantly, Intel is already shipping the new Pentiums in volume, while Transmeta doesn't expect to have that capability until late this year. (IBM manufactures the Crusoes.) That could allow Intel to seed the market with low-power chips and prevent Transmeta from making major inroads.
Transferring power to Japan would cost two yen per kilowatt-hour, making the total cheaper than the roughly nine yen per kilowatt-hour the country pays for nuclear power, he says.
Making ever more complex and power-hungry processors to obey Moore's Law just limits how many chips you can fit in a given space, he said.
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It has given new inspiration to the power of self-help in both races by making labor more honorable to the one and more necessary to the other.
And then there was the lack of electrical power -- the quakes cracked a hydroelectric power plant, forcing authorities to shut it down, making even a nearby airport unusable until portable generators could go online.
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