Later this month, the Koch brothers will join other super-rich power players at a Koch Industries-organized strategy session, planning ahead for the 2012 elections.
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Bankrupt state-run electricity boards, an acute shortage of coal, skewed subsidises which end up benefiting rich farmers, power theft, and under-performing private distribution agencies are to blame, say experts.
They decry the inordinate amount of power and influence held by our very rich and our corporate enterprises and the power of lobbyists to further their goals in a Congress that is essentially for sale.
They can try to compensate by easing credit standards, effectively encouraging the non-rich to sustain purchasing power by borrowing.
Forbes 4oo power players Rich DeVos, Ken Langone and Diane Hendricks all reportedly attended to strategize for the 2012 elections.
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"From their perspective I was an extremely rich nutcase, " Power says.
If the very rich can use their power to monopolize wealth today and a prosperous middle class disappears, then the disappearance of demand will force even the wealthiest to suffer a sharply reduced style of life.
Those anxious that the rich world's economic power is ebbing might welcome a few emerging-market slip-ups.
The power struggle between rich and rising economies is pushing into the area of governance.
The success of the peacemaking mission in Sierra Leone has given heart to all who think that the rich world's military power should be used to rescue "failed states".
This is just one example of the power of unlocking rich government data sets and services to the public and is exactly what the Digital Government Strategy is trying to accomplish.
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By the second half of the Middle Ages (1000-1500 AD) the wind and water-powered agarian revolution of the previous few centuries made Christian Europe into a rich, populous and expanding power.
When Hollande came to power he targeted the rich in his attempts to boost the government's coffers.
Hello, can we say rich-white-male-power-entitlement-issues?
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It remains a reasonable idea for most rich countries to keep some nuclear power in their portfolio, not least because by maintaining economic and technological stakes in nuclear they will have more standing to insist on high standards for safety and non-proliferation being applied throughout the world.
Hodel's Summit Power Group aims to build the first low-emissions coal-gasification power plant in oil-rich west Texas.
In compiling the rich list, FORBES scarcely has subpoena power, but neither do we rely on casual guesses from bystanders.
The rest of the world would then be able to join the poor of Africa and the rich of California, and generate solar power for itself.
As environmentalists point out, rich countries that spurn coal-fired power while exporting the rocks to countries with less ambitious emissions targets are merely shifting the problem around the globe.
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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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In the run-up to polling day, angry federalists in eastern Libya who want more power for the oil-rich coastal province of Cyrenaica (Barqa in Arabic) stormed several polling centres in Benghazi, the main city of the east, where the revolt against Qaddafi began a year and a half ago, and blockaded oil terminals.
The poor rich people in Guernsey have been beset by power outages and road closures to fix downed cables due to wet and wintry weather.
This would spur both industrial development in places like the Great Plains--rich in everything from fossil fuels to wind power--while keeping energy prices down for U.S. consumers and firms.
What the scheme is not is a giant leap towards a common economic government, with the power to siphon huge sums from rich to poor bits of the union.
Beijing has joined the World Trade Organisation, and Delhi sees it as a powerful potential counterweight to the power of America and the other rich nations in setting the terms for international commerce trade in a new global trade round.
It was only during the subsequent job-rich recovery that the effects of curbs on union power and sharper incentives to work materialised.
Daniel Yergin, in his latest and arguably most promethean work, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, infuses a rich ingathering of information and analysis with the narrative power of a McMurtry, the human interest of an O.
With that, Doosan plunged into full-scale production of power plants for turnkey transfer to oil-rich nations, two-thirds of its business today.
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Both are rich with coal but, paradoxically, short themselves on power.
Consumer demand for more powerful chips could pick up once households have broadband connections to video-and graphics-rich Web sites, which require a lot of processing power.
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