• Those demand spikes are unavoidable mini-disasters for energy companies -- their own grid doesn't have the power on hand, and the utility has to buy it elsewhere -- competing with other utilities trying to keep the lights on for their customers.

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  • MPs and candidates who have read their Burke and are eager to hand power to the little platoons.

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  • Aligning pivot of power reserve indicator hand with the line dividing the windows of the big date display has same effect.

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  • Flooring, power tools and hand tools also showed strength and boosted the average sales receipt, executives with the largest home-improvement retailer said during the call.

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  • The health secretary Andrew Lansley said the Health and Social Care Act would hand power to GPs, put patients at the heart of the NHS, and reduce needless bureaucracy.

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  • Mr Breeden's solution is to hand more power both to the board and to shareholders.

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  • Republicans have resisted efforts to hand political power to a city whose overwhelmingly black residents vote Democratic.

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  • While at SGI, he began to see first-hand the power of networks and the effect on entrepreneurialism.

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  • Egypt is now ruled by a military council that has promised to hand over power after elections.

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  • The United States is scheduled to hand over power to an interim Iraqi government at midnight on June 30.

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  • The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has insisted that it will hand over power to an elected civilian government.

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  • CPA, in time to hand over power to Iraqis by July 1st.

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  • Before the economic crisis, most assumed that during the next few years Suharto would gradually hand over power to his vice president.

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  • According to the speculation, Dr Mahathir might hand over power in 2003 to allow time for the party and the public to adjust.

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  • His task is to steer Peru to a fresh general election in April, and to hand over power to its victor next July.

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  • Oh, and what if that billionaire was himself a wildly successful entrepreneur who knew first-hand the power of market economics on social change?

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  • Yet these elections are critical, for it will be the first time in Pakistan's history that an elected government will hand over power to another elected government.

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  • In November, protesters forced President Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand over power to his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, as part of a deal brokered by the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC).

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  • Twelve years on from the end of the war, Bosnia is still a long way from normality, and the international community's efforts to hand over power to the country's politicians are failing.

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  • In a testament to the power of the invisible hand, the rough-and-tumble success of the Chinese bus lines is attracting new competitors, and the industry is becoming less dodgy in the process.

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  • But she said it was up to the prime minister and the chancellor to decide if the autumn party conference is the time to signal that they are prepared to hand over power.

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  • Clashes have erupted in Egypt since an uprising led to the toppling of Mubarak in February of last year, with protesters demanding the military leaders who took over hand over power to a civilian administration.

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  • The decision made in 1997 by Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor, to remove interest-rate decisions from political control and hand the power over to the Bank of England has immensely boosted the credibility of British monetary policy.

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  • Mr Dodik has been campaigning heavily for a referendum on the future of Republika Srpska - not on whether it should hand over power to a more centralised Bosnian government, but whether it should be allowed to leave Bosnia altogether.

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  • It has told countries that promised to hand dirty power plants all the permits they needed for years to come that they could not do so, because such pledges might undermine any chance of introducing a tougher regime after 2012.

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  • Companies are keen to follow the trail blazed by Internet sites like Facebook and Wikipedia, where hierarchy and protectionism have been pushed aside as the sites' owners hand over power to their customers, drafting in users to create innovations on the product.

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  • But the US government, which helped persuade Mr Saleh to hand over power, has defended the immunity law, saying it is necessary to give the president and his supporters "confidence that their era is over and it's time for Yemen to be able to move forward towards a democratic future".

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  • And now Costco will carry hand tools, power tools and tool storage units at all its 430 stores.

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