High demand and aging delivery grids have forced some utility companies to restrict the amount of power delivered to a data center.

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With the NRA, labor unions had greater power to organize and restrict the supply of labor in order to push up wages without necessarily increasing productivity.

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Apple also provides a setting in the Airport Extreme software that let us diminish the base station's transmitting power should we want to restrict the range of transmission to, say, a conference room for security reasons.

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It said the law will give the FDA the power to restrict advertising, stop illegal sales of tobacco products, require graphic health warnings that cover the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs, ban misleading health claims such as "light" and "low-tar, " regulate health claims, require disclosure of the contents of tobacco products, require changes in tobacco products.

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Regardless of the fact that what triggered the news was one network's mistaken enablement of a series of syndicated shows, the point is that any station or copyright holder now has the power to restrict their content.

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