That in turn was part of a bigger vision, the single-minded drive to turn Malaysia into a developed nation by 2020.
To supply the extra juice, utilities turn on inefficient single-cycle gas turbines, which turn 25% of the fuel's energy into electricity, as opposed to 45% for combined-cycle plants that use turbine exhaust to make steam to run a second generator.
To be sure, Obama has been battered by a series of struggles, starting with the economy, but including a series of events that were at least initially beyond his control -- from the Gulf oil disaster to a Republican minority that by any objective standard has tried to block him at every single turn -- and dragged down his approval ratings.
These days an executive's career--or a multibillion-dollar judgment--can turn on a single e-mail.
The X-5 lets the user quickly and effortlessly select the desired shooting mode - from a total of 10 modes including the hands-off Auto Picture, Scene, Program, Manual, Landscape, and Handheld Night Snap - with a single turn of the mode dial, without having to access the on-screen menu.
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He proposes the industrial-scale culturing (biomanufacturing, as he describes it, rather than farming) of single-celled algae that have been genetically engineered to turn out fuel-ready hydrocarbons.
But the super-rich are busy trying to turn old brownstones around Gramercy Park into single-occupancy houses and the supply of people who want to live in Manhattan seems inexhaustibly great.
But a single whistle-blower with a conscience can also turn your entire organization inside out.
Far, far too many buckets of loot have poured in for the publisher to turn its back on the single-player franchise.
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If this happens, it can mean big fees, or even being forced to turn the dwelling back into a single-family home.
Owais Shah failed to respond to his captain's call for a quick single to mid-on, so Collingwood was forced to turn back to his crease.
If you feel like hitting the road, you can drive with confidence knowing you'll get up to 6 hours of voice-guided turn by turn GPS navigation all on a single charge.
In Arizona Intel will turn two factories into a single one that has a 320, 000-square-foot clean room.
And with the new commitment that we're announcing today, we'll be doing our part to ensure that no matter where you turn to for help, America's single largest health care workforces -- more than 3 million nurses -- will be ready to meet your needs.
Few hotel companies beside Starwood (nyse: HOT - news - people )'s W chain have ever tried to turn a single boutique hotel into a minichain.
The performances that we've done all around the world with the hip-hop groups in almost every single case, you know, we've had to turn away people because they've been so wildly popular.
Curiously, individual customers turn out greatly to prefer paying a single fee for, say, unlimited text-messaging or 90 hours of telephone talk-time, rather than paying for each item, one at a time even though that might be a cheaper option.
Once loaded with text, both the SoftBook and the Rocket EBook act as single-screen tablets that let you use simple buttons and a stylus to select titles, "turn" pages, search and highlight text, and make notes.
Hon Hai relies heavily on a fairly small number of customers: In the tech industry, a single product line can make or break a company's fortunes and, in turn, the well-being of a supplier.
The key for gun control proponents is to figure out how to turn people's willingness to take a single action in a moment into an effortless and sustainable long-term commitment.
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