San Emidio, for instance, was an existing project with a known reservoir, which they upgraded by drilling some new wells and replacing an aging power plant.

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During Mr. Fox's administration, for instance, a handful of protesters with machetes successfully derailed the government's biggest public works project, a new Mexico City airport.

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In November 2008, for instance, Agassi appeared with then San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to announce a billion-dollar project to build an electric car network to link San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland.

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