Posts Tagged ‘power’
Ill. nuclear reactor loses power, venting steam (AP)
AP – A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators.
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Yemen’s president leaves for US, hands over power (AP)
AP – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left his battered nation Sunday on his way to the U.S. for medical treatment after passing power to his deputy and asking for forgiveness for any “shortcomings” during his 33-year rein.
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Obama seeks power to merge agencies (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama on Friday took aim at his government’s own messy bureaucracy, prodding Congress to give him greater power to merge agencies and promising he would start by collapsing six major economic departments into one. Pressing Republicans on one of their own political issues, Obama said it was time for an “effective, lean government.”
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APNewsBreak: Obama seeks power to merge agencies (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
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Obama vows US will stay world’s top military power (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama vowed Thursday the United States will remain the world’s pre-eminent military power even as the Pentagon scales back spending, shrinks the Army and Marine Corps and pulls back from Europe.
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Kim Jong Il’s son strengthens power with new post (AP)
AP – Kim Jong Il’s son was identified Monday as head of a top decision-making body of the ruling Workers’ Party, a post that now gives him authority over political as well as military matters in North Korea.
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AP IMPACT: EPA rules threaten older power plants (AP)
AP – More than 32 mostly coal-fired power plants in a dozen states will be forced to shut down and an additional 36 might have to close because of new federal air pollution regulations, according to an Associated Press survey.
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