He has a bag loaded down with laptops and power adaptors, a semi-sadistic editor, and a 3-figure budget.

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Details of her precise value are hard to determine -- "She is a pretty secretive yacht, " admits Richard Thiel, Editor-in-Chief of Power and Motoryacht Magazine.

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This is because readers have more power than ever, says Joel Rickett, an editor at Penguin.

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She possessed the certainties of a tabloid newspaper editor, and her eagerness to see the power of central government reduced even made her a heroine to some of today's Tea Party enthusiasts in the United States.

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Editor Steven Raeburn said that the Scottish government had the power to order an inquiry.

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Both Forbes senior editor Matt Herper and I blogged about this Harvard study about the power of placebos that came out last week.

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Nonita Kalra, the executive editor of the Indian edition of international fashion magazine Elle, similarly believes the power of the media in determining women's beauty aspirations should not be exaggerated.

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