Energy is produced where it's used, so you don't have the reliance and dependence on an increasingly vulnerable and overstressed grid.

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As a result, there has been a heavy reliance and dependence on textbooks to maintain the education system and to provide educational opportunities to primary and secondary schools.

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The Chinese cabinet promised last weekend to deliver new reforms intended to steer China toward less reliance on exports and investment and greater dependence on domestic consumption for growth.

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With Fiat's help, Chrysler might just be able to convince a sceptical administration that it has a plan to rectify three of its most glaring weaknesses: an over-reliance on gas-guzzling trucks and sports-utility vehicles, almost total dependence on the North American market and a perilously thin senior management team.

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Mabus says U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a strategic vulnerability that can only be alleviated by reducing our reliance on petroleum as the sole military fuel.

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War in Kosovo has sharpened these, bringing home to Europeans their reliance on the Americans for diplomatic and military might in their own backyard, and the drawbacks of that dependence.

ECONOMIST: President Prodi

That would be the case if the nation were finally impelled to do the one practical, near-term and affordable thing that would, over time, dramatically reduce our dependence on oil: Wean the U.S. automotive fleet from its current, almost complete reliance on petroleum-derived gasoline.

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