If TXU has to call into service its "mothballed" natural gas plants, or if new generating capacity in the state isn't enough to meet demand--causing prices to skyrocket--those additional facilities would have mattered quite a bit.
Even worse, too often, when we've attempted to update or replace outdated technology, we end up spending exorbitant sums of money on technologies that don't meet our needs -- or that took so long to implement that they were obsolete before we even started using them.
WHITEHOUSE: Forum on Modernizing Government: Opening Session
What all of these so-called 4G networks have in common is that they don't meet the technical specification for a real fourth-gen network.
But for debt-laden new owners like 34-year-old communications executive Daniel Snyder, revenue-sharing doesn't begin to meet their needs.
Because there is no "conformity of production" clause in the Brazilian legislation, cars won't be spot-checked to ensure they meet safety laws.
Several for-profit schools that didn't meet all of the department's requirements didn't respond to requests for comment.
If UAL can't meet the timetable, then debtor-in-possession lenders Bank One, J.
Browsing is free, but you're likely to find a unique souvenir that you can't live without -- and you might even meet the person who created it.
They were looking to start a Green Bay team, but because the city didn't meet the AFL's market-size requirement, the new team would be part of the developmental league, AF2.
Toyota's top hybrid engineers say they are all for plug-ins, but they don't think the lithium-ion batteries they depend on will be ready to meet their stringent quality standards for several years. (They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries.) Toyota is therefore likely to stick with the heavy and range-limited nickel-metal hydride battery for the third-generation Prius, due in 2009.
At 16 factories Brough, 36, was all but shoved out the door by eye-rolling cobblers who didn't want to make smallish batches of labor-intensive nonleather shoes that, to meet Brough's standards, would require animal-free glue.
That led to pricing and time-frame terms the technicians couldn't meet.
On several occasions, H-P said the unit didn't meet expectations.
Then it unveiled so-called Sleekbooks, which basically hold the same promise as Ultrabooks, except that for whatever reason (AMD processors, a too-thick chassis) they don't meet Intel's official Ultrabook requirements.
Earlier this week Government advisors said shale gas wasn't a "game-changer" as it could only meet a relatively small share of gas demand.
Despite the incentives, many would-be applicants remain sidelined because they can't meet the long list of qualifications.
"This may not be the end of it - we can't say the exact number until we meet to discuss the budget, " said Rod Bluh, leader of the council.
BBC: Swindon Borough Council set to lose about 50 extra jobs
We'd all be anxious to meet that 10-16 percent that don't seem to be worried about the economy.
There doesn't every seem to have been a thought-through plan B to meet the needs of the people of Leicester Forest East.
Though the new government, elected through the May 11 polls, won't be in place, Mr. Li will meet prime minister-elect Nawaz Sharif, who heads the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the rival to Mr. Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party.
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Let's say you perform white-collar work of a kind that doesn't require you to meet with customers or coworkers regularly.
You don't have to publish financial reports or meet other regulations because the well-heeled investors, who participate in the exchange are expected to look out for themselves.
And I don't want it to be middle-class families who are just barely making ends meet.
Yet they didn't meet until a decade later in New York, at a 10th-anniversary ball for Shanghai survivors.
Treat everyone you meet with respect and professionalism, and don't badmouth co-workers.
"If you just meet someone on the streets and go - you don't really heal from what you went through, " says one of the women at the workshop.
The question raised by the league and by the union, which has resisted supporting Pear and others on these kind of claims, the point with Pear is that he didn't meet the very tough criteria for disability payments back in the mid-1990s when he last filed for this.
His parents were at a track meet for their 15-year-old daughter and didn't see the news that night.
And those who believe government has a responsibility to meet these urgent challenges have a great stake in bringing our deficits under control -- because if we don't, we won't be able to meet our most basic obligations to one another.
WHITEHOUSE: Encouraging Long-Term Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
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