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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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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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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Finally, classic monopolists restrict output and use their power to lock in consumers.

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The so-called Kerry-Lieberman-Graham energy bill, which would restrict carbon emissions for the electric power industry, has recently been raised from the dead.

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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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When this bill becomes law, Fannie and Freddie will have a new, stronger regulator with the power to raise the companies' capital standards and restrict executives' pay.

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Technology firms counter that to restrict companies according to how their technology is used by customers would hand media firms a veto power over technical innovation any time it seems to threaten their interests.

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