More broadly, it has become a rising power in the music industry.
Ancient traditions endure, even as a rising power is on the move.
China, as a relatively new player in the region, is seen by many in Latin America as a rising power with an economy that may soon overtake that of the United States.
There is at least one another respect in which China is not a typical rising power: it considers itself a returning power.
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Hairy Dawg debuted in 1980, when Georgia, a rising football power led by running back sensation Herschel Walker, defeated Penn State in the Sugar Bowl for the national championship.
Chavez and his revolution are so powerful that various governments in South America, including that of Brazil, a rising world power, viewed the victory of Chavez in the October elections as a necessary condition for the continuity of regional integration.
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Turkey, trading at just 10 times earnings, is a fast-rising economic power, with a core of internationally competitive companies that are turning the youthful nation into an entrepreneurial hub, tapping cash-rich export markets in Russia and the Middle East while attracting billions of investments to boot.
For some, China is today what America once was: a rising and vigorous power.
With perhaps a nod to the rising power of value seeking procurement executives, The Coca-Cola Company altered the way it compensates its agencies.
India today is a rising and responsible global power.
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Martin Albrechtsen's cross from the right was only half-cleared by Senderos at the near post allowing Kanu to pounce and power home a rising volley on 37 minutes against his former employees.
The area below 39th Street, home to more than a quarter million people, was plunged into blackout thanks to rising waters and an explosion at a power substation on 14th Street (video, below).
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After a few years of teaching engineering, he joined Duke Power in 1976 as a design engineer, rising steadily to president by 1994.
The headwinds relate to the impact of a rising dollar on our multinationals' earning power next year.
Those who have yet to buy a home suffer a loss of purchasing power, so rising prices redistribute wealth, they do not create it.
This could provide a relatively cheap way to meet rising demand for power in cities.
Our multinationals have had a great run, but they need a breather from The Streets rising extrapolations of earning power.
McQuade came within inches of scoring before Wardlaw struck again, rising above the defence to power home a header after good work from Scott Linton down the left.
After a few years teaching engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he joined Duke Power in 1976 as a design engineer, rising steadily to president by 1994.
However, projections remain unclear because of rising gas prices and uncertainty over a new generation of nuclear power stations.
"The size of the Indian economy and the rate of growth of the cafe sector, combined with rising spending power and shift in consumer preferences present a tremendous opportunity for us, " says Avani Saglani Davda, chief executive of Tata Starbucks Ltd.
Mexican and American officials agree that the rising violence stems in large part from a battle to fill a power vacuum left by the arrest of two prominent traffickers.
Further appreciation will cut into a rising real estate asset bubble, and give Chinese consumers more buying power by encouraging Chinese manufacturers to shift production away from the export markets, to making and marketing goods and services for the domestic market.
India knows that its ambition to be a global power will depend partly on its ability to mediate and resolve the rising number of crises in neighbouring countries.
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Currently, the bloc is walking a tightrope between a rising China and an America that is reasserting its status as an Asia-Pacific power.
More than a dozen residents of Damascus and Aleppo interviewed by CNN complained of daily power outages and rising prices of commodities including sugar and cooking fuel.
The rest of us see our purchasing power eaten away by rising prices for gasoline, cereal, bread, and a lot more.
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Brazil's diplomats say that rising economic power means that at every meeting on trade, they are confronted with a demand to do more for their neighbours.
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Horizon Nuclear Power said a new station could deliver up to 800 high quality permanent jobs, rising to 1, 000 during maintenance and up to 5, 000 jobs during construction.
And, with a power shortage blacking out large parts of the country for two hours each day and unemployment rising sharply, there are plenty of other things to think about.
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