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...more than 150%. But construction of new power plants has not kept pace. Last year, millions of Chinese suffered blackouts when massive power shortages affected two-thirds of the country's 31 provinces and municipalities. Multinational companies operating in China, among them General Motors and Panasonic, were forced to shift their production schedules to off-peak hours, which lost them days of work, while thousands of local companies suspended operations entirely as available energy was funneled to foreign and joint-venture firms to keep their assembly lines humming. The electricity crunch hit China's fastest-developing eastern and southern regions...
...With softball, they’re looking at possibly of landscaping to shift the field so that five years down the road when they look to put in more permanent stands they have the place to do it,” Allard said. “The dugouts need to be done, no question, but I asked, for long-term [planning], to have [Soldiers Field] become a great venue to come watch. If Allston planning happens and you have housing down there, you might draw more students to games and we have very limited seating there right...
...spirit can be traced through the floating cow canvases of Sidney Nolan, the twisted tree trunks of Russell Drysdale's drawings, and the veil-like fish net that descends on Max Dupain's 1936 photo of a naked bride. What emerged was perhaps not pure Surrealism, but a psychological shift which was true to a movement that sought, above all, to liberate the mind...
...moves to introduce elements of GE's numbers-oriented processes, along with a new slate of top executives, ruffled feathers in Atlanta's clubby business community. "No question about it," says ex-CEO Blank, who is still active with Home Depot's charitable work in Atlanta. "There was a shift in orientation and culture. Some felt comfortable with that, some didn't." Blank says Nardelli's appointment was the first real management change in a company that was still essentially run like a family business. Taylor says Nardelli's appointment was "as if my mother had come home and said...
...said. But British backers of the constitution lament that by portraying E.U. negotiations as fights against wily foreigners, Blair has allowed anti-E.U. opinion in Britain to grow and harden. British Euro-skeptics think he's using red-meat rhetoric to conceal a major shift of power to Brussels. "The British government is clearly determined just to bulldoze through the facts and hope the media are too stupid to check the text," says Dominic Cummings, director of the New Frontiers Foundation, who counts at least 43 places where the constitution abrogates a current national veto over E.U. actions...