In most of these cases, the informal waste pickers are the moving power in salvaging recyclable materials.
The visceral image is intended to draw focus on the fragility of the environments we too often take for granted, emphasizing the power of humans to either salvage or seal their fates. .
Among the bills passed was one creating the Tennessee Valley Authority, which would build dams and power plants and in many other ways salvage a vast, impoverished region.
"By 1996 this project was dead, ready to be buried," said Eli Broad, the billionaire businessman and philanthropist and a top power broker in the city, who helped salvage it.
Back at Television Centre, hopes were fading that the power would be restored in time to salvage the rest of the opening night.
The opposition of salvage firms shows the convention's power, argues Ulrike Guérin, who runs its Paris-based secretariat.
WEEKEND, PAGE E35 Emissions Pact in Disarray New York and other states scrambled to salvage a landmark regional pact on power plant emissions after two states dropped out.
But the growing clamor for action has raised a familiar issue: are national governments ready to surrender more power to the European Union or its agencies to salvage the euro?
From defeat he thus managed to salvage a considerable portion of his imperial power.
The program is a nice mix — we meet a small universe of New Yorkers who salvage food from trash and learn about the power brokers who have made fortunes from trash-hauling — but most fascinating is the history.
An early-season snowstorm blanketed northwestern Minnesota and parts of North Dakota on Thursday, shutting schools, pulling down power lines and making trouble for farmers already struggling to salvage crops from the worst drought in 50 years.
