Retailers have attempted to cope with this customer power shift by offering rock bottom prices in order to ring up much-needed sales.
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Gas does now contribute 35% to power generation, but rock-bottom prices and a sniffiness about gas as oil's poor relation mean that exploiting its bounty (Saudi Arabia apparently has the world's fifth-largest gas reserves) has proven hard.
China is of course planning to employ other sources, like wind power, hydropower and nuclear, but the sooty black rock is expected to represent as much power generation as all those others combined.
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And that ability to remain competitive could give this pharmaceutical rock star staying power.
Newman, the Canadian band New Pornographers is virtually peerless in the world of power-pop and indie-rock.
With matching costumes, choreographed stage moves and a go-go dancer, the neo-soul 10-piece revels in rock's visual power.
Before most moneymen, Rock recognized the energizing power of stock options distributed to a broad segment of a young company's talent.
Smith was known as the 'godmother of punk', particularly in light of her influential debut album Horses - which she described as "three chord rock merged with the power of the word".
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At Deal, a new 400m wall has been built either side of the pier designed to reduce the power of the waves, further north a rock barrier has been built and the beach has been strengthened with tonnes of shingle.
They combined skills to push for support of rock quarries, landfills, hospitals and power plants.
"We have reached the evaluation that the D-1 area of crushed rock in the premises of the Tsuruga power plant needs to be taken into consideration from the perspective of quake-resistant design, " Kunihiko Shimazaki, deputy chairman of the authority, told reporters during a news conference following a panel meeting where the report was approved.
Mr. WANG: From there, the song was covered by other artists, but most famously in 1970 by the East L.A. group El Chicano, which transformed Viva Tirado into a brown power anthem, giving it a funkier feel and a stronger rock edge.
The plant, Desert Rock, is owned jointly by the tribe's power authority and Houston-based Sithe Global Power, which in turn is majority-owned by Blackstone, a large private-equity firm.
At the same time Yury Boiko, the Ukrainian energy minister, has high hopes that shale gas -- formed deep underground within large shale rock formations -- could also be a major alternative source of power in the decades to come.
Sometimes that means spare, distorted power chords in "Part 4, " but that's about as "rock" as All Is Falling gets.
These range from power attacks for warriors (such as slamming the earth and sending huge pillars of rock into your foes) or more traditional spells like fireballs and lightning.
Jim Holley of the city's Historic Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church said he didn't expect the emergency manager to be in power for a long time.
Haimovitz says that seeing punk rock fans sitting next to classical music afficionados in a smoky dive bar has awakened him to the power of music to bring people together.
Beneath the rock star antics on view strictly for customers, Faulkner is not eager to telegraph her newfound wealth and power.
Some people have looked at the idea of grinding up peridotite and using it to soak up emissions from power stations, but the process turns out to be expensive, partly because of the costs of transporting all the rock.
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