Word: powers
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...renewable energy purchase, orchestrated by the University Operations Services (UOS), makes Harvard a leader in green power consumption, catapulting it from the twelfth to the fourth largest green power consumer of US Colleges and Universities, according to an October 2009 EPA report...
Under the long-term contract with First Wind, a Massachusetts-based developer of wind power headquartered in Boston, Harvard will purchase 50 percent of the energy produced from First Wind’s soon-to-be constructed wind farm in northern Maine for the next 15 years...
...Stetson II wind plant currently under development will produce enough wind energy annually to power 10,000 homes by as early as July 4, 2010, said Lamontagne...
...cycles of losing - often by double digits - on their handling of the economy? Part of it was simply keeping that focus on jobs, and not allowing itself to get sidetracked by social or cultural issues. After all, when the economy is bad, grass-roots anger at whomever is in power can be a powerful weapon, and populist, pro-change rhetoric always sounds good. A Republican base riled up by Obama's ambitious agenda also helped. "We're just motivated by the current political environment," says Jonathan Rogers, 25, a military officer who went to the rally with his wife Marissa...
...over the construction of minarets first came up in 2007 when Muslims in several Swiss towns sought permission to build the towers, which are used primarily to call Muslims to pray. Residents responded by collecting signatures to block the building plans, claiming the minarets were a symbol of Islamic power and radicalism. The four mosques in the country that already had minarets have tried to minimize their presence - and the potential disruption to neighbors - by not using them for prayer calls. (See pictures of Muslims in America...