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...coal industry counters that the sheer rise in demand for electricity--projected to increase 30% by 2030, according to the federal Energy Information Agency--means a new generation of coal plants is inevitable. Dominion executives point out that Virginia has a projected shortfall in electricity supply and that the Wise County plant is needed to close that...
This sort of thinking is already familiar to much of corporate America. For globalized companies, risk comes from all directions--contaminated products from China, terrorist attacks on facilities in the Middle East, Katrina- and Ike-size weather events at home--which has led to the rise of what the consultants call enterprise risk management. The level of risk a company is willing to take is articulated by the board of directors, and then measures of risk taken are gathered and fed up to the highest levels of management...
...Patterson also said that student interest in politics was not fleeting. “I do think this moment has created a lot of interest,” he said, “and I don’t mean simply the Obama moment. Interest has been on the rise. The real driver [in 2004, when youth turnout also increased] was the Iraq war, and when that turned sour, there was a real sense that things were really going wrong here.” Student voters themselves said they planned to remain committed. “Obama said that change...
...Obama’s win capped off a meteoric rise which saw him ascend from the Illinois State Senate to the White House in less than five years. On his way to the Oval Office, Obama shattered fundraising records, defeated one-time Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, and convinced a country to focus on his message of change, not his relatively thin resum?...
...Resistance to the nationalization of pensions is strong, but it may not rise to the fever pitch of this year's running battle between the nation's farmers and Fernández over a hefty tax hike on soy exports. A four-month farm strike ended in a humiliating defeat for Fernández when her initiative was killed by a deciding vote cast in Congress by her own Vice President, Julio Cobos, whose approval rating shot up to 67% in opinion surveys as a result...