Thanks to emerging power-outlet technology, though, this may soon be a moot point.
The second line of work we undertook with respect to strategy in Asia was to engage intensively with the emerging power centers in the region -- like China and India and Indonesia.
Even 2, 500 weapons may seem unreachable for an emerging nuclear power with a few dozen weapons on hand.
That Jack Welch, America's most celebrated businessman, could be bested by Mario Monti, a bespectacled Italian professor, set the author off in search of other signs of emerging European power.
India would obviously love it since it would instantly make it a key player in the Middle East and would validate its status as an emerging great power, which it craves.
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The chance of a regional power emerging from the crisis is strengthened by some other trends.
The Federal Reserve, which is emerging with unprecedented power as the government moves to provide Fannie and Freddie with a financial lifeline.
The Federal Reserve, which is emerging with unprecedented power as the government moves to provide Fannie (nyse: FNM - news - people ) and Freddie (nyse: FRE - news - people ) with a financial lifeline.
Solar Frontier, a start-up company based in Tokyo, Japan selling leading-edge solar CIS technology, is opening an office in Khobar, Saudi Arabia to strengthen its position in the emerging solar-power market in the Middle East, which it has described as a strategic priority for long-term growth.
The new boss wants to speed the process up and introduce new voting rules to boost the power of emerging economies.
Attesting to the power of emerging markets, the company noted that the greatest increases in sales came from Brazil, Mexico, and China.
At the time, Japan was still recovering from the oil crises of the 1970s, and nuclear power was emerging as the alternative to foreign oil.
But many are frustrated how difficult it is to get a green card, so they leave for Brazil, India or China and help power those emerging economies.
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The visit was significant because Benedict's resignation has raised concerns about potential power conflicts emerging from the peculiar situation of having a reigning pope and a retired one.
The chief geopolitical risk, which Mr Cookson underscores, is a longer-term one, but a process already under way: the very strength of emerging economies is altering power relations among states.
But the prospects are good, claims Aggreko, because the power gap in emerging economies is so big.
So if you think about GDP, emerging markets are on purchasing power parity 50% of global GDP today.
Some retailers' profitability could suffer as they wait for the spending power of the emerging middle class to increase.
Now a doctor has endorsed the power of this emerging trend.
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Wireless power is an emerging technology that creates a better charging experience for consumers, just as Wi-Fi replaced the need to use an Ethernet cable for Internet connectivity.
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Simply put, creativity is emerging with the bravado and power to needed to alter the face of business, reminiscent of the indelible imprint technology first etched 20 years ago.
The success of management resulted in America emerging as the premier industrial power, not principally because of a large educated workforce who magically self-organized so as to become highly productive, but rather because large US corporations discovered how to use large numbers of even semi-skilled people more productively.
Mark Mazower, a British historian at Columbia University, New York, presents his work as a stocktaking: a chance, just as the West is seeing power shift to emerging giants in the East, to ponder how Europeans and Americans crafted the present web of international institutions, from the UN to the World Bank or International Monetary Fund.
Now the rise in emerging economies is once again altering power relations among states and creating new geopolitical risks.
Meantime, shale gas is emerging as the king of utility power markets.
The shift in global economic power to the big emerging countries in Asia means prospects look much brighter for the newer breed of financial hubs, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, than for established centres like London or New York.
Akerele says that although the reality in Nigeria is that most people live in poverty, the rise of sectors such as telecommunications and the diversification of the Nigerian economy beyond oil and gas has created an emerging middle class with bigger spending power.
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However, in the emerging pull economy, users have more power than ever before.
Moses says that together with emerging laser amplification technology that is less power hungry, and the huge energy gain from the fission reaction, a combo reactor would deliver 200 times the energy it consumes.
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