Bad news: the most resilient and powerful economic force--the spending power of U.S. consumers--is beginning to falter.
Meanwhile, the Swiss ambassador to Iran -- the protecting power of the U.S. in Iran -- was called into the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to hear Iranian complaints regarding U.S. interference in Iran's election process, P.
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U.S. power-hitter Crystal Bustos still fumes about the vote and how it might've been punishment for the work U.S. head coach Mike Candrea did in 2004.
It was estimated in 2008 that to meet the U.K. wind-power goal by 2020 would require building one new turbine every day for the next twelve years.
The result of such misuses of U.S. power -- and the military projects it -- will not only be the deplorable and unnecessary loss of American lives.
But experts say a successful, large-scale attack on U.S. computer systems could hobble electric-power grids, transportation networks and industrial-supply chains.
Explosive growth of more than 40% this year--3, 400 megawatts of new generation is expected--could make the U.S. the world's largest wind-power market, a new report shows.
In fact, this is again U.S. government, big-power diplomacy on behalf of the corporate elites.
The company is poised to see volume growth, especially since gas-fired power plants are coming in line in the U.S. over the next decade--and the bulk of them will be using natural gas as their fuel.
With a wide assortment of product offerings to its target group of low-to-middle class U.S. consumers and by maintaining its pricing power over suppliers, we believe Wal-Mart will be able to sustain its leadership in the retail industry.
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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.
But they do doubt that Spain or Italy can generate the euros they need, because -- unlike the U.S. or Japan or Britain -- Spain and Italy lack the power to create their own money.
In January, a CIA official told a conference of cybersecurity professionals that power outages affecting multiple non-U.S. cities had been the work of hackers. (See: Hackers Cut Cities' Power).
Gas-fired power plants supplied 31 percent of U.S. electricity in 2012, according to BNEF, up from 22 percent five years ago.
For decades the U.S. power grid has been grossly under-capitalized, which is at least part of the reason why it routinely operate near the limits of its abilities.
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But the recent celebrated visits of Americans such as Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former NBA Star Dennis Rodman show the appeal the U.S. still has -- and the soft power it can leverage.
Supporters of the U.S. private-pay system fear a shift in power to Washington will cut down on the innovation and choice that comes with the free market.
On a related matter, this source said Bremer sent out his own separate two-page memo Monday in which he provided alternatives to the current seven-step U.S. plan for the transition of power from the Coalition Provisional Authority to the Iraqi people.
The damage done to Japanese nuclear facilities has given new ammunition to critics of nuclear power, just as the industry and many of its supporters in Washington were hoping for a revival of U.S. nuclear power as an alternative to coal-fired electricity generation.
What role are long-range manned bombers expected to play in U.S. power projection in the future?
Meaning U.S. promises, paradigms, prognostications--or the power to back it all up--with or without our change of Presidents.
The 20-year-old cultural property act gives U.S. officials the power to strike such agreements with nations that ratified the 1970 Unesco convention.
The meaning of the holiday changed over time, becoming a David versus Goliath tale among Mexican immigrants in the 1930s and embodying U.S.-Mexico unity during World War II and Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Hayes-Bautista said.
The reasonable investor, like the reasonable person in other tort suits, is an invention of the U.S. court system who generally possesses the extra-sensory power to detect, in advance, every bad outcome that might come from a certain course of action.
The U-verse Wireless Receiver simply connects to the TV and plugs into a power outlet.
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Coal-fired power plants are now generating just 36 percent of U.S. electricity, versus 44.6 percent just one year ago.
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And Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph.
They're the kind of personalities that pop up in American public life from time to time, making the U.S. seem as much an oversized circus as a super-power.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections.
Like the lightly-armed Dutch contingent of U.N. peacekeepers in Srebrenica, brushed aside by Bosnian Serb forces commanded by General Ratko Mladic, the 300 U.N. monitors in Syria have no power to influence events -- just to observe and report them.
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