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.
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.
To narrow the income gap between rich and poor, we must increase the power gap between those who govern and you, the American people.
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".
Although it is a tough nut to crack, Pakistan is poor because the military is rich and in power and until that changes it is pointless to expect better days.
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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It was only during the subsequent job-rich recovery that the effects of curbs on union power and sharper incentives to work materialised.
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.
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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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.
Unquestionably the dominant actor on the continent due to its comparative economic strength, military power, and rich natural resources, the ruling African National Congress has been steadily leading the country - and hence the rest of Africa - away from a healthy relationship with the United States and toward ideologies and nations opposed to American interests.
When Hollande came to power he targeted the rich in his attempts to boost the government's coffers.
They can try to compensate by easing credit standards, effectively encouraging the non-rich to sustain purchasing power by borrowing.
But the recalls are only a small part of what is likely going to be a huge anti-Republican backlash across the nation, as working Americans finally realize what that party actually stands for: an playing field heavily tilted toward the rich and powerful, toward corporate power, and against worker rights.
In other words, the relationship between sex and power is not just limited to politicians or the rich and famous.
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.
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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And when he assumed the presidency from Boris Yeltsin in 2000, he started consolidating the Kremlin's power over the nation's most valuable asset--its rich store of oil, gas and other resources .
Hodel's Summit Power Group aims to build the first low-emissions coal-gasification power plant in oil-rich west Texas.
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.
He did not say who would pay for a technology which increases the cost of power generation so much that it has still not been adopted in rich nations which have caused the climate problem.
The president has ruled the gas-rich nation since 2007 and enjoys absolute power, with orders rarely challenged.
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He says Iran has no intention of reaching a deal because the oil rich country is not interested in civil nuclear power.
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.
Question number one is whether the would-be great power's economy will be rich enough to buy it a military force that can be used far afield, not just in the area immediately around its borders.
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.
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