It would also have approval power over the pay packages of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives.

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They will, in many cases, be monopoly providers of benefit packages with the power to set the fees physicians can charge and to decide whether consumers will be allowed to select their own doctor on a fee-for-service basis.

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The Detroit Federation of Teachers, which enjoys rich pay packages (corrected for purchasing power, Michigan teachers are the best paid in the nation, reported the Mackinac Center for Policy Policy), would do the UAW proud.

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They included more power for shareholders to veto salary and redundancy packages, and encouragement for firms to increase diversity on their boards.

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Future packages for a year's computing power might have the customer pay up front, pay later, pay now and run down an account, or draw computing power from a general-purpose "grid" of computers run by Sun.

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Over the past week, computer experts in Italy, Russia and the US have posted details online on a clutch of vulnerabilities they have found in various SCADA packages used to automate installations as diverse as power stations, water purification plants, oil refineries, food factories, breweries and steel plants.

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Meanwhile, FedEx is convinced the low-power, low-cost wireless alternative has countless uses, and will continue to help the company track packages around the world.

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