The plan to electrify the route between London, Bristol and Cardiff was confirmed by the government in March.
Carter-Williams tried to electrify the crowd, but his driving two-handed dunk try caromed off the back of the rim.
Train journey times between Leeds and Manchester are to be cut under plans to electrify the North TransPennine Express rail route.
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The anti-politics mood unleashed by last year's parliamentary-expenses scandal also makes it hard for any politician, however appealing, to electrify the public.
Plaid Cymru welcomed the electrification, and claimed it followed its pressure to change plans to electrify the track between London and Bristol only.
Since congressional Republicans promised to zero out federal funding for high-speed rail, analysts noted, the state wouldn't have enough money to electrify the tracks, let alone build out.
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Even if the plan to electrify the U.S. auto fleet is achieved, it will be many years before our national use of 20 million barrels a day is meaningfully reduced.
China, however, now plans to electrify 80 percent of its new cars by 2020, but Deutsche Bank's forecast conservatively assumed only 26 percent, no cuts in any cars' weight and drag, and ordinary trucks and planes.
After losing to Obama in last week's Iowa caucuses, it was unclear whether she could overcome what appeared to be Obama's ability to electrify American voters who had previously taken a sour and skeptical view of politicians and the political process.
Shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said that people living west of Cardiff had been "let down", and it would cost 20% more to electrify the stretch of line to Swansea under any future programme rather than as part of the current plan.
But he said the Government's change of heart on the reserve power to "electrify the ring fence" was good politics but bad economics that would lead to even less lending.
One piece of "news" in today's speech - though it is not, strictly, a surprise - is that Mr Osborne is accepting the Tyrie Commission's suggestion, to "electrify" the new ring-fence between banks' risky, investment banking-type activities and their retail operations.
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