Banco Santander sold 8% of its Chilean stake recently to plug up holes in its flagship enterprise in Spain.
We also took a look at the BP's first massive oil containment dome, which the company plans to lower 5, 000 feet below the sea to plug up the leak.
After that, plugs became a national peculiarity, as cartels of national manufacturers drew up proposals for plug designs that met the safety standards of the day - and kept overseas competition at bay.
The cape plug-in boards can be plugged into BeagleBone's two 46-pin dual-row expansion headers, providing similar headers so that up to four cape plug-in boards can be stacked at a time.
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That said, I was sold on the idea pretty quickly, so signed-up and then downloaded the plug-in.
This process, in turn, would have heated up the area outside the plug, vaporizing icy material and turning it into dry matter.
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Environmental groups argued against the project, warning that a spill would be difficult to plug and clean up in the remote and inhospitable Arctic.
He said simple measures, including fitting water-resistant skirting boards and installing plug sockets further up the wall, would help property owners minimise the risk of damage.
The team said it used a small drill to penetrate the last metres of ice and immediately withdrew it, allowing the lake water to percolate up and create a frozen plug that the team will collect next year.
Ms. LINDA HANCOCK: I just do not feel that some new individual coming in running for Congress, that has no seniority, is going to be able to go up there and put a plug in for funds for us and be able to get them.
So if the ECB won't budge and eurozone countries are unwilling to cough up, how else will Greece plug the gap?
Belkin also has an accessory that will allow you to hook up any device to a wall plug and control it via your iPad or iDevice.
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The clever bit (and forgive me - it's hard not to make this sound like a plug) is wrapped up in the software being worked on by a team of about 70.
After charging up the handheld overnight, just plug the base station into your PC's USB port, plop the CD in the drive and you'll be up and messaging in a matter of minutes.
That means when you click from an insecure tab in your browser to a secure one, the insecure site can wait until the user is on a trusted site and send a pop-up requesting the user download a plug-in.
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But it is not sufficient to plug the massive deficits built up over the past several years.
Electric cars can also only go 70 to 100 miles on a single charge before the driver has to plug-in and power up again.
You should, of course, be aware of each system's connectivity before making a purchase, but don't let that previous-gen plug dissuade you from picking up an otherwise awesome setup.
Up until the moment Nokia pulled the plug and went for Windows Phone, Symbian OS was maintaining a health market share that Windows Phone right now would kill for.
Your average EV owner needs to plug into a grid to charge up.
However, the Kremlin has been spending heavily to prop up the rouble, bail out banks and plug holes in its budget.
This applies to the first 200, 000 plug-ins, but goes up to 300, 000 if an automaker sells at least 25, 000 in the 2012 model year.
What is clear is BP cannot, should not, and will not, leave the Gulf without meeting its responsibility to plug the well, to clean up the damage that's been caused, and to compensate those that have been damaged.
And following the intersection of the well bore with those relief wells, they will put heavy mud down there to suppress the pressure of the oil coming up from the reservoir, put a cement plug in and effectively do what I would call a bottom kill, as opposed to the top kill, which was not successful a couple of weeks ago.
What's interesting is the GM technology would allow you to actually plug it into the wall, charge up oversized batteries, and run almost exclusively on battery power while you're commuting.
The standard response of companies to the pension crisis of recent years has been to close their schemes to new members, plug the deficits from profits and set up less generous defined-contribution plans for new staff.
The Mini was launched a year ago as a scaled-down, blue version of Google's bright yellow Search Appliance--essentially a rack-mounted server that businesses could plug into their network infrastructure for searching up to 100, 000 shared files and Web pages.
Once the Xbox is back together, plug the external connector back in and fire up the console.
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New wells will fail to plug the gap left as older fields dry up, despite the investment that 2008's higher prices encouraged.
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