The likes of E.ON and EDF may claim that only protected national champions are able to secure supply, by striking long-term deals with powerful foreign suppliers.
For the last few weeks, Mr. Lautenberg, who received a diagnosis of stomach cancer three years ago, has been grappling with debilitating and long-term consequences that powerful chemotherapy treatment has had on his leg muscles, according to people close to him.
Then, having told millions of people that they are diseased, a treatment is offered – even if inadequately studied, especially in the long-term, and without powerful enough studies capable of finding unanticipated harms.
Only vertically integrated monopolies, they argue, can guarantee secure supply, by investing enough in local grids and capacity, and by using their might to strike advantageous long-term deals with powerful outside suppliers, like Russia.The European Commission, rightly, sees this argument as not just self-serving but dangerous.
Both men divorced their first wives, though in later years established long-term unions with powerful women, Mandela with his third wife, Graça Machel -- the widow of a former president of Mozambique -- and Cooper with a noted South African psychologist who has a major leadership role in the psychology organization he now heads.
Long-term studies are powerful to help better understanding both the individual roles and the complex interplay of underlying drivers of land system change.
Tricky.Whatever Mr Obama finally decides to do, he will face two powerful long-term constraints.
Moreover, the powerful long-term momentum that is built into the human age structure means that the effects of fertility changes become apparent only in the far future.
With its proud corporate culture, its devotion to long-term planning and its powerful unions (the Confédération Générale du Travail jointly runs the firm, in effect), EDF is sometimes described as a miniature version of France itself.
Eaton Vance Information Age was created in 1995 to capture what both managers viewed as powerful long-term opportunities resulting from rapid technological change and industry deregulation in markets outside the United States.
Since the establishment of a democratic government in Iraq is at best a long-term prospect, the most powerful message America could send that would have an immediate impact in the Arab and Muslim worlds would be to set up public inquiries, led by Iraqi and international prosecutors or journalists, to expose the horrors of Saddam Hussein's regime.
