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Likewise police stations, post offices, and other existing public facilities might, with modest adjustments, provide space for secondary schools for at least part of the day.
Electronic voting, used at 10% of polling stations, also caused problems.
For example, it has long been understood that CO2 produced in large stationary plants like electric power
stations
can be “captured” and piped to where it can be injected into underground caverns (or possibly ocean beds).
Whoever secures the
stations'
s license when it is opened for renewal in late March can, if he or she puts in a professional management, look forward to big revenues from advertising.
Aid, I believe, is best focused on infrastructure – the bridges, roads, Internet cables, and power
stations
that will help our economies to grow and allow us to trade more easily with each other.
The third challenge in establishing a Palestinian state is to create the institutions of statehood: hospitals, ports, airports, roads, courts, police stations, tax offices, and government archives.
Providing a "development shortcut" that leads directly to photovoltaic or nuclear electricity generators, not coal-fired power stations, high-performance materials, not steel mills, and cellular telephone networks, not expensive fixed-line systems, would clearly benefit us all.
And in some cases, governments have interrupted programming on privately owned television
stations
to issue political statements.
Moreover, during Earth Hour, any significant drop in electricity demand will entail a reduction in CO2 emissions during the hour, but it will be offset by the surge from firing up coal or gas
stations
to restore electricity supplies afterwards.
Ultimately, China wants a total of five million EVs on the country’s roads, powered by an estimated 10,000 charging stations, by 2020.
Major companies are snatching up
stations
across the United States and, in the process, eroding the scope and quality of local news reporting.
For media companies that own local stations, reaping the financial bounty from political ads is one thing; investing in news operations another.
In 2014, five companies owned one-third of the 1,400 local television
stations
in the US.
The 168
stations
owned or operated today by Sinclair Broadcasting, the largest of the five, are a case in point;Sinclair broadcasts in 81 local markets, reaching nearly 40% of the US population.
Because of consolidation, fewer television
stations
actually gather and report the news.
According to the Pew Research Center on Journalism and the Media, the number of local television
stations
originating their own news programming has fallen 8% since 2005.
Federal regulations allow media companies to own multiple
stations
in a single market, and in nearly half of them, media companies own or manage at least two.
Stations
share staff, facilities, and even stories, reducing not just the number of newsrooms, but also the competition that brings diversity and depth to reporting.
According to the Radio and Television Digital News Association, a quarter of US television
stations
that present local news receive their programming via “news sharing” arrangements.
In other words, the
stations
do not produce news programs themselves.
In four of the television markets the researchers assessed, nearly 100% of the stories broadcast by “news sharing”
stations
used the same videos and scripts.
More troubling, research suggests that as local
stations
reap revenue windfalls from election campaign advertising, reporting on the candidates’ claims becomes off-limits.
A study by the public-interest group Free Press of political advertisements during the 2012 presidential election found that
stations
in the six sizable television markets examined undertook virtually no reporting on the claims made in the political ads they aired.
In Denver, for example, local
stations
took in $6.5 million to air nearly 5,000 ads paid for by the 2012 presidential candidates’ political action committees (ostensibly independent fund-raising groups that shield their donors’ identity).
The same Denver
stations
devoted only 10 minutes and 45 seconds in total to examining the accuracy of the advertisements’ claims.
But firms must deal with licenses in many areas – such as medical devices and drugs, radio stations, mines, bars, banks, insurance companies, airlines, and taxis – that are not included in the report’s indicators, even though they may be major obstacles to doing business.
But China did enter into a five-year bilateral accord, which expires next year, requiring it to transfer to India hydrological and meteorological data daily from three Brahmaputra-monitoring
stations
in Tibet during the risky flood season, from May 15 to October 15.
Yet it received no data, with the Chinese foreign ministry claiming after almost four months that upstream
stations
were being “upgraded” or “renovated.”
China’s Growth ChallengeBEIJING – Throughout the just concluded 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ubiquitous television screens in trains and metro
stations
broadcast a live feed of the Chinese assembly.
To succeed, we will need several decades to convert power stations, infrastructure, and building stock to low-carbon technologies, and we will need to upgrade the low-carbon technologies themselves, whether PV solar cells, or batteries for energy storage, or CCS for safely storing CO2, or nuclear power plants that win the public’s confidence.
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