It involved moving mountains and eradicating disease and inventing and constructing by far the hugest locks and lock gates ever conceived at the time and even a 1914 General Electric computer system to run it all.

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R. 2164, a bill that would require all employers in America to use an electric employment verification system called E-Verify.

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For example: Key to the Ford hybrid's system big numbers is its all-electric speed range of up to 62 mph.

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Lucia was supposed to last all day, but about four hours into the journey, the boat's electric system crackled and popped.

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"They (computers) run our electric power grid, out telecommunications network, they run our railroads, our banking system, and all of them are vulnerable, at some level, to some degree to information warfare, or cyber-terrorism, " Clark said.

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