Ms. PATTON: The Four Corners Power Plant and the Navajo Generating Station collectively discharge some 77, 000 tons of smog and haze-forming oxides of nitrogen each year, and that is comparable to the amount of pollution that would be discharged from some 80 million motor vehicles.

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Yet the nuclear fleet projected American power to the far corners of the globe and laid the groundwork for a domestic nuclear power industry.

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But oddly, the UK has retained some capability to "project power" in far corners of the world at the precise moment that the political will to do so has collapsed, because of the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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FSA, says that the agency is busy implementing a new law that gives it more power to deal with jiggery-pokery in other corners of financial services.

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It was a crisis born of a failure of responsibility from certain corners of Wall Street to the halls of power in Washington.

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Taut and composed, with nicely weighted and direct steering feel (electric power assist), the TL absolutely hustles through the corners with very little body lean.

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It may seem like people can gain power quickly and easily if they are willing to cut corners and act without the constraints of morality.

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