Instead, they voted for a combination of public and private partners including Friends of Fort Gorges to fund the preservation efforts on Fort Gorges.
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The sources say China Three Gorges Corp may also bid.
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China's Three Gorges is the world's largest hydroelectric power producer.
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Fort Gorges is totally exposed and located in the ocean.
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Gorges was seen limping as he left the locker room.
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Three Gorges, China's biggest hydropower developer and the operator of the world's largest hydropower plant at the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river, could not be immediately contacted for comments on Nepal's decision.
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"I didn't feel it was dirty, it wasn't malicious," Gorges said.
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Gorges was a late scratch because of an upper-body injury.
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Gorges has missed the last seven games with a hip injury.
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D Josh Gorges missed Monday's game with an upper-body injury.
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Fort Gorges is an abandoned fort on the coast of Portland, Maine.
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Enjoy lush and shaded gorges at Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio.
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The Canadiens pulled Scrivens after Gorges' goal, but the struggles in net continued.
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Koivu evened the score late following a penalty to Sabres defenseman Josh Gorges.
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China's Three Gorges International Corp is haggling for better terms, Nepali officials said.
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Fort Gorges looks a lot like Fort Sumner, except smaller, according to experts.
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Three Gorges and China Life did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Hell's Gate is home to deep gorges, cliffs, and three geothermal power stations.
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Trump gorges on burgers in a bed he doesn't share with his wife!
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Reuters reported on Friday that China Three Gorges was closing in on a deal.
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Cesp, as the power company is known, Equatorial and Three Gorges declined to comment.
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Chinese companies WH Group, China Investment Corporation, and Three Gorges are experiencing similar problems.
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Sabres D Josh Gorges is day-to-day with an upper-body injury. 2.
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A representative for Three Gorges New Energy could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Song went on to help manage the giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.
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"This was a gutty effort," said Buffalo defenseman Josh Gorges, who already was looking ahead.
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China Three Gorges launched a bid for utility company EDP this year, Portugal's largest company.
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According to the Press Herald, Fort Gorges is one of Maine's most endangered historic places.
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Where, Arthur wonders, are the jobs for men who throw railroad engineers into river gorges?
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NOTES: D Zach Bogosian, D Josh Gorges and LW Matt Moulson were scratched for the Sabres.
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Gorges made it 24-222 just 254.7:26 into the second after burying his own rebound.
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A wonder of engineering, China's Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power plant by capacity.
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NOTES: D Josh Gorges, C Zemgus Girgensons and D Carlo Colaiacovo were scratched for the Sabres.
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Sandpaper skin, deep gorges across his forehead and wrinkles alongside the temples like cracked, dry earth.
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Gorges in the ruddy sandstone of the Vindhya plateau gave him respite from the midday heat.
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Some 1.2 million people were resettled to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. Game-changer?
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Gorges has been dealing with a hip injury and missed his fifth game in a row.
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LISBON (Reuters) - A $10 billion bid by China Three Gorges for EDP-Energias de Portugal (EDP.
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China Three Gorges first bought into EDP in 2011 and has invested in its renewables arm.
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Think of the Great Wallendas stretching netless above gorges: a cloud learns not to look down.
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Another Chinese company, Three Gorges, has also made strides in Brazil after a flurry of acquisitions.
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The Shibantan fossil, as it's called, was found in the Dengying Formation of China's Yangtze Gorges area.
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We have a breathtaking public coastline, striking mountain ranges, deep river gorges, lush forest and high desert.
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Located on Hog Island Ledge, Fort Gorges is a granite fort that is completely surrounded by water.
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This is a parrot rifle, and its the only Civil War relic that remains at Fort Gorges.
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China Three Gorges has continued to raise its stake in EDP since reports of Gas Natural's interest.
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Defensemen: Brady Austin, Mathew Bodie, Zach Bogosian, Justin Falk, Taylor Fedun, Cody Franson, Josh Gorges, Dmitry Kulikov.
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Pliskova topped compatriot Katerina Siniakova 6-4, 6-4 and Gorges took down Hungarian Timea Babos 3-6.
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In China, it would save as much as eight Three Gorges dams (the largest dam in the world).
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Back in 2010, a staggering 300,000 residents were moved to clear the way for the Three Gorges Dam.
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D Josh Gorges was back in action Wednesday after missing three games due to an upper-body injury.
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NOTES: G Robin Lehner (illness), D Josh Gorges (hip) and C Derek Grant were scratched for the Sabres.
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Fort Gorges was built during the Civil War but was rendered obsolete by the time the war ended.
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We took a tandem sea kayak to Fort Gorges from Portland, Maine, which is only accessible by boat.
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Now the road stretched out, empty and endless, over a glaciated, monochrome terrain of ridges, gorges and craters.
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The gorges were silvered with lush olive groves that owed their fertility to brawling streams, thin as ribbons.
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The shutdowns have cut capacity by 13.52 gigawatts (GW) to just 7.5 GW. The Three Gorges plant has reduced capacity to 6 GW from 18.12 GW, while Gezhouba, some 38 kms (23 miles) away, has halved capacity to 1.5 GW from 2.9 GW. Phone calls to Three Gorges were unanswered.
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Center David Legwand and defenseman Josh Gorges also scored for the Sabres and goalie Chad Johnson made 26 saves.
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A titan of hydropower, China's facilities include the vast Three Gorges Dam, which has a capacity of 22.5 GW.
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Hubei and China Three Gorges, one of the world's largest hydroelectric power producers, could not be reached for comment.
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There are plans for a third, which could generate 2000,603MW, or twice as much as China's Three Gorges dam.
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State Grid and Three Gorges have been extremely active in recent years, buying local assets in the electricity sector.
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For a memorable day, the train teetered along tracks perched above impossibly steep gorges, high above rushing mountain streams.
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Just present him as the high-wire act and car crash that he is; the audience gorges on it.
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Then, 186 miles from the ocean, it drops into a dangerous series of gorges, sinking 12 feet every mile.
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China Three Gorges Corp paid 13.8 billion reais ($3.66 billion) in 2016 to operate two of Brazil's largest dams.
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The scientists were examining a geological area known as the Denying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area of South China.
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China Three Gorges, EDP's largest shareholder, has continued to raise its stake in EDP since reports of Gas Natural's interest.
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The deal marks China Three Gorges' first venture into Peru as the presence of Chinese companies grows in Latin America.
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Gorges has been dealing with a hip ailment and was a late scratch in Saturday's game against the Winnipeg Jets.
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PORTUGAL'S EDP COULD PROPOSE LATAM JV WITH CHINA THREE GORGES IF ITS $10.15 BLN TAKEOVER BID FOR EDP FAILS - SOURCES
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Photos of the search showed police and volunteers scouring rocky paths and steep gorges to find the hiker, WSOC reported.
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The ship's passage will include views of the Qutang, Wu, and Xiling Gorges, as well as ancient temples and pagodas.
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But there are also gorgeous hidden beaches, world-class ski resorts, and stunning natural formations like canyons, waterfalls, and gorges.
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No move is imminent, the people said, because Three Gorges wants to carefully assess the implications and value of any deal.
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China's Three Gorges Dam, completed in 2008, plugs a 244-square-mile reservoir that can hold 39 trillion kilograms of water.
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The company's biggest shareholder is China Three Gorges, a Chinese state-owned power company, which owns a nearly 24 percent stake.
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OUTSIDE China, the monster Three Gorges dam across the Yangzi river is one of the most reviled engineering projects ever built.
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Visitors can enjoy archery, disc golf, and fishing, in addition to hiking through caves, up waterfalls, and under tree-shaded gorges.
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Three defensemen — D Josh Gorges (foot), D Taylor Fedun (shoulder) and D Zach Bogosian (knee sprain) — were scratched for the Sabres.
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Some of the additional water stored on land would have been trapped in new reservoirs, such as China's Three Gorges Dam.
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Others celebrate its natural beauty, with the gorges and waterfalls inspiring that infamous green T-shirt and unavoidable tourism marketing phrase.
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There's no exaggerating the hell of jostling for space at the media trough where Trump gorges to the point of bursting.
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Whole stretches of the twisty State Route 299 — through the Shasta-Trinity National Forest — look over enormous gorges but lack guardrails.
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Native fish, unfamiliar with the new arrival, do not know to avoid it, and the predator gorges to the point of obesity.
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Earlier, Duke said it agreed to sell its Brazilian unit to clean energy company China Three Gorges Corp for about $1.2 billion.
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Enel, Iberdrola, Engie, E.ON and Iberdrola all declined to comment, while China Three Gorges did not respond to a request for comment.
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One big difference is that in 1998 the Three Gorges dam was still under construction (it went into full operation in 2012).
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He was speaking a week after China Three Gorges launched a takeover bid for EDP-Energias de Portugal, the country's largest company.
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The idea to build Fort Gorges came up after the War of 1812 when US coastal towns were deemed vulnerable to attack.
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China Three Gorges bid $27.5 billion for energy company Energias de Portugal in May, but that deal has not yet been finalized.
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There are medieval Moorish castles, Neolithic cave paintings in red hues, deep gorges with cascading rivers, wild orchids and ancient oak trees.
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The river is a popular multi-night cruise route that includes visits to the Three Gorges Dam, which is in Hubei Province.
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Shares in Portugal's utility EDP are worth a fifth less than the price at which China Three Gorges invested $3.5 billion in it.
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He was knocked hard into the boards by Sabres defenseman Josh Gorges early in the second period and had to leave the game.
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SHOULD Europeans worry that China Three Gorges (CTG), a state-owned firm, wants to buy EDP, a utility that is Portugal's biggest company?
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Floods could be a test of the water management capabilities of the controversial $59 billion Three Gorges Dam, which was finished in 2012.
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State-owned utility firm China Three Gorges launched a $10.8 billion offer in May to take complete control of Portugal's biggest company EDP.
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Although it was made to house 500 soldiers, Fort Gorges didn't actually end up housing any, aside from fort workers and their families.
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In the summer of 2019, Friend of Fort Gorges started a fundraising campaign to raise $250,000 for the fort's most time-sensitive repairs.
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Yet its remote location, amid gorges and forests in a rural part of the state, created a sense, perhaps an illusion, of safety.
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EDP shares climbed 8.8 percent after China's state-owned utility China Three Gorges offered $10.8 billion to take control of the Portuguese power firm.
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This means China Three Gorges could quickly raise its stake to one third of EDP, the level needed to block any potential rival bidders.
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Elsewhere in the park are other spectacular sights, like gorges and natural scenery, so make a day of it with a bit of bushwalking.
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EDP and EDPR are both targets of a takeover offer by China Three Gorges, which is still subject to regulatory approvals in various countries.
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The world's second-largest hydroelectric facility after the Three Gorges, it has generated over 2.3 billion megawatt hours since 1984, when it became operational.
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Now Mao was ruler, and he was being called to discuss the Three Gorges Dam, a giant power project proposed for the Yangzi river.
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Importantly, the analysis also showed a decrease in RNS blooms in 2000, which the researchers attributed to the construction of China's Three Gorges Dam.
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Gorges was sent to the penalty box for tripping after taking down Coyle, who then crashed into Lehner on his way toward the net.
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The deal's announcement came the same day as China's Three Gorges Corp said it was taking control of two of Brazil's largest hydroelectric dams.
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It's a rare species of the popular lady's slipper orchid that grows naturally at high altitudes on rocky cliffs overlooking river gorges in Borneo.
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Another one of Wang Wei's investment firms bought a big stake in the Three Gorges Bank, in the city of Chongqing, in about 2008.
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His close association with the controversial Three Gorges Dam, a multibillion-dollar hydroelectric project he personally oversaw, was another point of contention in his legacy.
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He was a champion of the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze river, a massive feat of engineering that became part of his legacy.
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As "Dirty Water" played over the Garden speakers, Sabres defenseman Josh Gorges spoke emphatically to the officials in protest of the rare penalty shot decision.
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It has long been China's commercial artery, running deep into the country through spectacular gorges, as well, in earlier dynasties, as its line of defence.
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Instead, Fort Gorges was used to store mines during the Spanish-American War, and it was used to store submarine mines during World War II.
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After World War II, Fort Gorges was abandoned until 1960, when Portland, Maine, acquired it and added it to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Then, even more slowly, as the path descends in spiraling bends, the car splashes through sudden creeks of snow melt that run through narrow gorges.
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There are, in shades of cream and copper and flame, the unlikely geometries of eroded sandstone: narrow gorges, strange whorls, sudden holes in the ground.
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The Portuguese energy firm EDP also rose 9 percent by the end of Monday's trade after the Chinese group Three Gorges presented a takeover bid.
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"Like France, Chartres is fed up with the traditional political system but it's not only linked with the recent affairs," said Mayor Jean-Pierre Gorges.
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The park, located about 62 miles northwest of the Kenya's capital of Nairobi, is home to multiple deep gorges, cliffs, and three geothermal power stations.
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The surface is scored by old gorges, canyons, beaches, ocean basins and giant volcanoes, whose eruptions could have kept things riled up on the planet.
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You can almost feel him melding into his lounge chair as he absently watches Fox News, lusts for a neighbor's wife and gorges on Doritos.
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Guzmán's lens flies the way you would wish your own eye could, unveiling incredible natural beauty and revealing secrets: a labyrinth of gorges for instance.
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The atypical placement of the bunkers was a function of the distinctive topography of the site — hummocks, gorges, hills and dales that slanted and dipped.
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The fossilized remnants of a newly described creature, dubbed Yilingia spiciformis, were found in rocks pulled from China's Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area.
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He again opposed plans to build the Three Gorges Dam, teaming up with the journalist and environmental activist Dai Qing to prevent the gargantuan project.
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This effectively allows China Three Gorges to raise its stake in EDP even if it does not hold 50 percent, plus one share of the company.
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Some of the unfinished ones came to a dead end in impassable gorges, or were abandoned because different stretches turned out to be impossible to join.
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A spokesman for Prime Minister Antonio Costa referred Reuters to Costa's previous statement which said the government had no objections to China Three Gorges' planned takeover.
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China Three Gorges owns 21 percent of Energias de Portugal while private conglomerate Fosun upped its stake in bank Millennium bcp to 24 percent in February.
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Vieira became a cabinet minister in October after previously working for law firm Linklaters, which is representing China Three Gorges (CTG) in its bid for EDP.
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China Three Gorges saw its bonds pull in about 2100.50bp with the 2100.70s heard at 84b/82bp over US Treasuries, after pricing at reoffer of 90bp.
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Cornell has forbidden its gorge safety stewards — student employees who monitor gorges and sometimes call the Cornell police to report scofflaws — from going inside the tunnel.
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Because Armenia is defined by mountains, canyons, gorges, forests, rushing streams and rivers, lakes, grassy highlands and dales, it has become a prime destination for hikers.
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She found one here, where about 15,000 people, mostly of the Taroko tribe, live near the lush gorges of a national park that shares their name.
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After Buffalo's Josh Gorges and Brendan Guhle were sent off, each for tripping, the Panthers took advantage and scored on a 5-on-3 power play.
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The Portuguese company said regulatory implications of the China Three Gorges takeover were "not clear and may impact EDPR strategy and growth prospects", particularly the U.S. business.
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Devastating road accidents on this scale are common in Afghanistan, where drivers often ignore traffic laws on poorly maintained narrow roads that wind through steep mountain gorges.
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It quite indiscriminately gorges on whatever has been produced by human creators and extracts the patterns to be found there—including some of our most pernicious habits.
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The projected costs are comparable to those of the Three Gorges power station in China, which has about seven times the planned generating capacity—albeit non-nuclear.
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The Three Gorges dam is on the Yangzi River in China, and not on the Yellow River as implied in our review last week ("Water, water, everywhere").
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China Three Gorges' 2021s and 2026s have widened 8bp and 29bp against Treasuries since pricing on June 3, bid today at spreads of 98bp and 303bp, respectively.
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EDP-Energias de Portugal is the largest Portuguese company by assets and is the target of a 20.19 billion euro takeover proposal by China Three Gorges (CTG).
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Hell's Gate is a popular hiking and cycling spot for tourists and locals and is known for its towering cliffs and gorges carved by a prehistoric lake.
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It sold Brazilian sanitation company Odebrecht Ambiental to Canada's Brookfield Asset Management for $800 million and Peruvian hydroelectric plant Chaglla to China Three Gorges Corporation for $1.4 billion.
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The Three Gorges dam is the world's biggest power station by far, with an installed generation capacity of 22,403 megawatts (MW), equivalent to about 20 coal-fired stations.
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A consortium led by China Three Gorges Corporation and another consortium that includes Spain's ACS (Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA) have been vying to develop the project.
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The 185-meter Three Gorges Dam has been one of China's most expensive and most controversial engineering projects, submerging entire villages, displacing millions of people and disrupting ecosystems.
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This latest video, Kaibab Elegy, showcases various areas of the Grand Canyon, both during the day and at night, as clouds drift through the maze of deep gorges.
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Three Gorges opened a subsidiary in Brazil in 2013 and has since spent 15 billion reais ($4.54 billion) buying four large hydroelectric dams and stakes in two more.
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The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangzi river, which went into full operation in 269, involved the flooding of hundreds of villages and the displacement of 230m people.
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The fort is falling apart, and the City of Portland, Maine, is hoping to restore it with the help of a fundraising organization called Friends of Fort Gorges.
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The government has also emphasized the role of the Three Gorges Dam, which can hold back surges of water that would otherwise threaten areas downstream along the Yangtze.
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Chinese utilities State Grid Corp and China Three Gorges Corp have shown interest in the stake, which is likely to be sold to a consortium, the article said.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's controversial Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydropower project, is structurally sound, officials said, denying rumors on social media it was at risk of collapse.
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The 185-metre Three Gorges Dam has been one of China's most expensive and most controversial engineering projects, submerging entire villages, displacing millions of people and disrupting ecosystems.
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Women wore blue flannel dresses and waterproof cloaks — as opposed to the frippery of Madison Square Park — and climbed steep gorges with sketchbooks, paintbrushes and pencils in hand.
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We settled on the town because it is so rich in natural beauty—or "gorges" in local pun parlance—and it has a thriving arts and science scene.
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This is a Republican base governed by fear, and it has found its perfect apostle in Trump — a man who sells fear, gorges on it, bathes in it.
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A vast hydropower facility, the Three Gorges Dam stands roughly 181 meters tall and has a length of around 2,335 meters, according to the United States Geological Survey.
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Culprits include the Three Gorges Dam, which stores water upstream on the Yangtze for winter electricity generation, lowering a nearby river channel and sucking water from the lake.
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The project he was proudest of, though it made him even less popular, was the building of a massive dam on the scenic Three Gorges of the Yangzi river.
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"I truly believe the bounces go your way especially in the third period if you've been putting the effort in in the first two," Sabres defenseman Josh Gorges said.
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The photo harkens back to an infamous scene from the film, in which Kevin gorges himself on junk food while his entire family is in Paris for the holiday.
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As history has shown, China has a soft spot for mega projects, whether it be the construction of the Great Wall of China or the colossal Three Gorges Dam.
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As Mehmedinović tells Creators, the full cloud inversion occurs in the Grand Canyon when cold air is trapped in the gorges and topped by a layer of warm air.
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China Three Gorges, a Chinese state-owned utility, has sounded out European firms including Italy's Enel, Spain's Iberdrola, France's Engie and German firms E.ON and RWE, the sources said.
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Recently, there were reports of villages dumping sewage into the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest power station spanning the Yangtze River in central Hubei province.
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In space and in time, from narrow gorges to salty seas and from great empires to impoverished peasantry, the river at Mr Guo's feet encompasses more change than most.
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Next up for Barthel is a meeting with countrywoman Julia Gorges, who beat Estonian Kaia Kanepi 22-1 23-22 26-20 behind seven aces in an evening match.
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A peak of rebelliousness was scaled in 1992, when only two-thirds of delegates voted for the plan to build the massive Three Gorges dam on the Yangzi river.
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China Three Gorges holds a 23 percent stake and Chinese state company CNIC holds nearly 5 percent, meaning that the Chinese state owns just over 28 percent in EDP.
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Three Gorges New Energy plans to use part of the proceeds to build offshore wind power plants and acquire photovoltaic and wind stations across the country, the sources added.
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Chinese construction company Sinohydro - better known for building China's Three Gorges Dam - has begun work on a 13-km (8-mile) flood-defence embankment for the $280-million project.
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The hilly 188-kilometer (117-mile) route from St.-Paul-Trois-Châteaux in southern France passed through the Ardàche gorges, home to cave paintings dating back some 36,000 years.
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To tourists and plenty of Icelanders the lupine fields are a breathtakingly beautiful sight in midsummer, the attractive blossoms carpeting gorges, sprawling over lava fields and climbing steep mountainsides.
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Bighorn Lake is a fisherman's paradise as well as a watery highway that allows you to float through gorges in the shadow of 1,000-foot walls of sedimentary rock.
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The image of the cathedral morphing into an Alpine ridge, with its cliffs, pinnacles and gorges, dates to 1958; 61 years later, the picture turns out to be prophetic.
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Belo Monte, built on the Xingu River in the Amazon forest, will have a total installed capacity of 11,11 megawatts, exceeded only by China's Three Gorges and Brazil's Itaipu dams.
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SHANGHAI, July 9 (Reuters) - China's controversial Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydropower project, is structurally sound, officials said, denying rumors on social media it was at risk of collapse.
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Plan to navigate dirt roads but be rewarded with truly remote hiking trails deep in the wilderness with gorges, slot canyons and rivers galore -- all without ever passing another person.
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The huge Three Gorges dam on the Yangzi, which a decade ago turned a fast-flowing stretch into a reservoir the size of Lake Superior, is just the latest scheme.
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Kathmandu has cleared a 750 MW project to be built on the West Seti River in the western part of the country by China's state-owned Three Gorges International Corp.
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Instead, crushed by the immense buildup, ice gets shoved slowly along valleys and gorges until it finally reaches the edge of the continent, walking the plank into its watery grave.
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Later, she treats Maria to a dinner at which she silently eats salad and pasta while the younger woman gorges on lobster and steak and gushes at length about Christopher.
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Wuhan is home to China's largest inland port and the gateway to its giant Three Gorges hydroelectric dam, the world's largest power project by installed capacity, on the Yangtze River.
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Mitsuha, delighted to find herself sometimes living in Tokyo, adapts surprisingly well to Taki's body and, especially, his habit of visiting cafes (where she gorges on sweets, spending his money).
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Examples include groups dealing with the Three Gorges Dam (full operation of which began in 2012) or poverty alleviation (Mr Xi has set a target of eradicating extreme poverty by 2020).
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China Three Gorges, which seeks to expand beyond hydropower as it faces a saturated domestic hydro market, will buy Blackstone's majority interest in WindMW GmbH, an offshore wind power joint venture.
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The company analyzed GE's device patents when the company won a contract with China's Three Gorges Dam project in 2005, and China's State Council demanded ownership of those patents, Pratt said.
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Click here to view original GIFThere are a lot of logistical problems that pop up when you build a 600-foot structure like the Three Gorges Dam in China's Hubei province.
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With Sabres defenseman Josh Gorges in the box for tripping, Krejci grabbed a loose puck from close range and scored on a backhand shot for his eighth goal of the year.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's giant Three Gorges project, the world's biggest hydropower plant in the middle reaches of the Yangtze river, continues to confound policymakers tackling its massive social and environmental impact.
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Many of the films the festival programmed dealt with topics that ran afoul of government censorship laws like controversial political events like the Cultural Revolution, 1950s land reforms, or Three Gorges.
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Three huts are placed at intervals along the trail, which cuts through Paparoa National Park, passing river gorges, up onto mountain ridges that overlook the sea and through dense primeval rainforests.
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Two six-hour blocks of episodes from "A Craftsman's Legacy" follow Eric Gorges, a metal shaper, as he apprentices with people who make tools, buckets, furniture, quilts, baskets and stained glass.
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He lost the battle over the Three Gorges Dam, which hard-liners pushed through in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and the defeat of reformers in the Communist Party.
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Fifth-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova dispatched Russian Ekaterina Makarova 7-5 7-5 and unseeded German Carina Witthoft upset her 12th-seeded countrywoman Julia Gorges 7-6(2) 4-6 6-4.
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Overseen by China's State Council, the China Development Bank is one of the country's three policy banks and primarily provides financing support to large infrastructure projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.
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China's major utilities, including China Huadian Corp, China Datang Group, China State Grid Corp and the Three Gorges hydropower producer will be the biggest players in the market, the NEA statement said.
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In recent years, the group sold Brazilian sanitation company Odebrecht Ambiental to Canada's Brookfield Asset Management for $800 million and Peruvian hydroelectric plant Chaglla to China Three Gorges Corporation for $1.4 billion.
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Such symbolic offerings will have to count for more as popular concerns grow about sediment building up behind the Three Gorges dam, increasing water extraction and desertification in the Yellow river basin.
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The 20-year-old Russian will next face fifth seed Julia Gorges in the quarter-finals on Friday after the German dispatched Indian Wells champion Naomi Osaka 7-6(4) 6-3.
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Named the "largest curtain of falling water in the world" by UNESCO, Victoria Falls also feature numerous basalt gorges, or narrow valleys that have been formed from the falling water over time.
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In these cases I usually look for clues at first that have factual answers, so I started with Plutonian ODE, AUF Wiedersehen, Three Gorges DAM, and a couple of other little gimmes.
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Great gorges and rock faces stretched across the horizon, interspersed by streaks of green — agricultural plots worked by farmers using traditional methods that languished during Soviet times, when goods were largely imported.
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On her way to find him — it's now 2006 — she takes a ferry down the Yangtze River, through the area soon to be inundated by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
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Samugheo (population 3,018) is an unremarkable-looking town that sits snug against breathtaking cliffs and gorges, forests of cork oak and olive trees and fields fragrant in spring with asphodel and poppy.
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STRATEGIC LOCATION: Wuhan is home to China's largest inland port and the gateway to its giant Three Gorges hydroelectric dam, the world's largest power project by installed capacity, on the Yangtze River.
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EDP shares rose as high as 3.49 euros, above China Three Gorges' (CTG) 3.26 euros per share bid, which represented a premium of less than 5 percent on EDP's Friday closing price.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's market watchdog has waived a requirement in its takeover rules that will make it easier for China Three Gorges to pursue its bid for utility EDP-Energias de Portugal (EDP.LS).
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Meanwhile, huge rainfall in China has forced the world's biggest power station, the around 20,000 megawatt (MW) Three Gorges dam, to reduce its capacity by 6,000 MW to ease pressure from the downpour.
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The online edition of the Expresso newspaper said earlier that a Chinese consortium that includes EDP's largest shareholder, China Three Gorges (CTG), was preparing a takeover bid for Portugal's leading company by assets.
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When his mother and Malachi make love—loudly and vigorously—Kiese gorges upon sweets and more boxed wine, which leaves him so inebriated that he cannot finish his report on Fannie Lou Hamer.
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Li also pushed for the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project, which has been criticized for its environmental risks and for evicting people living along the Yangtze River, the Post reports.
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SHANGHAI, Nov 14 (Reuters) - China's giant Three Gorges project, the world's biggest hydropower plant in the middle reaches of the Yangtze river, continues to confound policymakers tackling its massive social and environmental impact.
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To Mr. Perez Ventura's mother, Agnelli Gutierrez, who lives in the Bronx, the barrier is an obvious first step toward what she has made her mission: preventing the gorges from claiming another victim.
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This is one of the ways I have imagined Dominica, along with what I have seen in travel guides: its high mountain peaks, forts, lush rain forests, reefs, gorges, lakes and water falls.
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APG and infrastructure investor TRIG competed against other groups of investors including Sweden's IKEA as well as state-backed China Three Gorges, which were also shorlisted in the auction, two other sources said.
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Sweeping shots of the area that will later become home to the Three Gorges Dam nod to Jia's previous Still Life, offering oblique commentary on the rapidly changing state of China's small cities.
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It gorges on advertising as it counsels readers to put a bar of soap under their bedsheets to relieve nightly leg cramps or to improve their red-blood-cell count with homemade beet syrup.
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They inspire awe with their aesthetics, engineering and sheer scale, but many dams – from China's Three Gorges to Brazil and Paraguay's Itaipu – are also playing crucial roles when it comes to global power generation.
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Damage from the so-called fall armyworm, which gorges on corn, soybeans, cotton, rice, and dozens of other crops, could force China to import more corn, rice or soy to makeup for the shortfall.
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China Three Gorges has held talks with European utilities to gauge their interest in buying EDP's and EDPR's U.S. renewables business as it looks to smooth the path for its planned takeover, sources said.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Utility company EDP may balk at the meager 183 percent premium offered for its shares by China Three Gorges (CT) but the battle for Portugal's biggest business has largely played out already.
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The company owned by EDP Brasil and China Three Gorges that controls the plant said in a statement that it was negotiating with the tribe to try to find a solution to the conflict.
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In China's authoritarian system, even small numbers of dissenting votes make a statement, such as when a third of the delegates voted against or abstained from approving the controversial Three Gorges Dam in 1992.
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Its massive Three Gorges Dam, which cuts the Yangtze River and rises 213 feet high, was the largest hydroelectric project in the world, designed to produce 22014 times the power of the Hoover Dam.
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"It's going to be a longer trip, but it's going to have features that people might not normally have taken in," he said, such as gorges and mountain ranges the trains don't normally pass.
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CDB Leasing is offering shares in an range of HK$1.90 to HK$2.45 each and tapped six cornerstone investors including Three Gorges Corp, China Reinsurance and China State Shipbuilding for its deal, IFR reported.
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EDP, which was approached last year by China Three Gorges (CTG) with a 9 billion euro takeover proposal, owns conventional generation assets in Portugal and Spain that are worth around 1.7 billion euros ($1.9 billion).
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"The Ithaca gorges are so, so beautiful but they can be very dangerous if folks don't obey the posted signs," Acting Ithaca Chief of Police Pete Taylor told the outlet as the search was ongoing.
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State-owned China Three Gorges, which is already EDP's largest shareholder, last month launched a 9 billion euro ($10.4 billion) bid to take over the power utility with an offer of 3.26 euros per share.
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China Three Gorges launched a $10.8 billion bid in May to take control of EDP, Portugal's biggest company, of which it already owns 23 percent, although there is no guarantee its approach will be successful.
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Nine days, two guards, chauffeured tours through a national park that's a World Heritage site, visits to Taoist temples and to the Three Gorges, expenses fully covered, all courtesy of the Ministry of Public Security.
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The group parked their cars in Gorges State Park and then hiked the 1.5-mile trail to the falls, which are in the Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina State Parks spokeswoman Katie Hall told CNN.
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UPPER SVANETI, Georgia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For the people of Upper Svaneti, a remote sliver of land nestled high in the gorges of Georgia, the last words uttered by the dying are portents of the future.
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The Blues' response to the hit on Steen came from left winger Robby Fabbri, one of the smallest players on the team, who initiated a fight with Gorges, only the second fight of his NHL career.
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EDP shares jumped on Monday to close more than 9 percent higher, above the 3.26 euro a share price offered by China Three Gorges last Friday, as investors bet on a higher offer or rival bid.
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It is hard for a visitor to square the scenic splendor of gorges like Grands Goulets and Combe Laval with the turmoil that took place on the Vercors where the French resistance made a valiant stand.
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With more than 11 million people, Wuhan is central China's main industrial and commercial centre and an important transport hub, home to the country's largest inland port and gateway to its giant Three Gorges hydroelectric dam.
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Belo Monte, a dam built on the Xingu River in the middle of the Amazon forest, will have a total installed capacity of 11,233 megawatts when completed, exceeded only by China's Three Gorges and Brazil's Itaipu dams.
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The market regulator CMVM said on Wednesday that China Three Gorges is allowed to drop a 50 percent plus one share clause in the takeover rules as long as its bid process runs to its legal conclusion.
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LISBON (Reuters) - EDP-Energias de Portugal CEO Antonio Mexia is touring London, Beijing and New York as he tries to convince investors that a takeover bid offered by China Three Gorges is too low while EDP (EDP.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - China's Three Gorges Corp transferred 4.8 billion reais ($1.48 billion) to Brazil's government on June 30, fulfilling the payment for concessions to operate two of Brazil's largest hydroelectric dams, the company said on Friday.
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While my son tumbled on a field with other five-year-olds, I cast my eyes across the river, where the hills were a pale brown with deep gorges and no trees: foothills with flat, bulldozed tops.
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He walked across the gorges of the Dourbie in southern France, and between the Tours Mercuriales in Paris; in Kjerag in Norway, in winter, he crossed on a wire between ice-walls 450 metres above a fjord.
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EDP-Energias de Portugal is the target of a 9 billion euro takeover proposal by China Three Gorges (CTG), which the EDP board has rejected as too low and which is opposed by activist shareholder Elliott Advisors.
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A $1.6 billion deal with China's Three Gorges Project Corporation to build the West Seti hydropower plant in Nepal has also been put in doubt, with officials saying the Chinese company has been haggling for better terms.
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LISBON (Reuters) - China's state-owned utility China Three Gorges on Friday launched a bid to take control of Portugal's biggest company EDP, offering a premium of just below 2205 percent on the power firm's closing stock price.
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It banked over the deep cinnamon sandstone gorges carved by the Murchison River, which extends to the coastal delta, surveying the edge of one of earth's driest, hottest continents, where two to six million feral cats roam.
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Buffalo's Dmitry Kulikov is expected to return Friday following a 13-game absence with a back injury while fellow D Josh Gorges has a chance to play despite dealing with a non-displaced fracture in his foot. 3.
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Earlier, stock market regulator CMVM suspended trading in EDP shares after sources and media reports said that a Chinese group led by EDP's largest shareholder, China Three Gorges, was set to make a takeover bid for the firm.
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The remaining cranes are in eastern Siberia and spend their winters in southeast China, downriver from the Three Gorges Dam at Poyang Lake, the country's largest freshwater lake, which has experienced periods of extreme drought in recent years.
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On a more concrete level, the changes that we witness in Datong, like the looming promise, or threat, of the vast Three Gorges Dam, on the Yangtze River, reflect an enduring obsession with all that fails to endure.
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EDP, however, signaled it is open to an improved offer and said the strategic intentions in the takeover plan, such as maintaining EDP's Portuguese identity and contributing some overseas China Three Gorges' assets to EDP, had some merit.
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Fan Xiao, a Chinese geologist and long-standing critic of giant dam projects, said the rumors reflected the lack of debate about the Three Gorges project, which was now considered a "national treasure" that should not be criticized.
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Ms. Gallmann, 74, has set aside the expanse for protecting wildlife like elephants, leopards, lions and buffaloes, as well as the rare species of trees and plants that thrive in the gorges and hillsides of her sculpted property.
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EDP has signalled it is open to an improved offer and said the strategic intentions in the takeover plan, such as maintaining EDP's Portuguese identity and contributing some overseas China Three Gorges' assets to EDP, had some merit.
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Gorges has watched five of the last six ... Sabres D Carlo Colaiacovo has now been a healthy scratch 21 of the last 22 games ... Sabres C Philip Varone was a healthy scratch for the second game in a row.
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She (Maria Paranova) finds time to wave at her audience, but, in her own Trockish way, she takes acting — her idea of acting — very seriously: She executes industrial quantities of swannishness, and gorges herself on the swan's death throes.
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To the east of the rift is soft limestone, kneaded and puckered by water into caves and gorges and giving rise to riverine forests, replete with endemic bats, crickets, mollusks and millipedes that thrive on the limestone's calcium bounty.
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China Three Gorges, which is EDP's largest shareholder with a 23 percent stake, announced a takeover bid for the rest of the company on May 11, offering a premium of five percent which was widely seen by analysts as too low.
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Last week a source told Reuters that Enel would look at any assets of Portugal's EDP, which is the subject of a bid by China Three Gorges, after a breakup of the utility, which has generation and distribution in Brazil.
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Perry's video is a musical riff on the craze, a tiny cooking show that ends in a TV dinner in which hamster Mr. Parsons gorges on miniature fries, tacos, hot dogs, pasta, and what I think is some sort of pizza.
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LISBON, April 24 (Reuters) - Shareholders of EDP-Energias de Portugal rejected on Wednesday a voting rights reform, effectively blocking a 9 billion euro ($10 billion) takeover bid for the utility announced by China Three Gorges (CTG) almost a year ago.
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The stereotype of the rich Russian who gorges himself on truffles and wears Prada jackets while vacationing in Italy may lead some of us to believe that any luxury experience in Moscow would be completely out of the question, financially-speaking.
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EDP-Energias de Portugal sees merits in the plans of suitor China Three Gorges (CTG), it said on Saturday, signalling it may be open to an improved offer after rejecting a 9 billion euro ($10.6 billion) takeover proposal as too low.
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China Three Gorges Corporation, the operator running the world's largest hydropower plant, plans to build a factory to test turbines at 5 MW or more for the Fujian coastal province, China's third largest offshore wind province after Jiangsu and Hebei.
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In what analysts said was a move unprecedented in its scale, the Three Gorges and Gezhouba, two of China's top hydropower plants, closed as much as two-thirds of their capacity to avert flooding further downstream on the Yangtze River.
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The Communist Party took enormous pride in the completion of the Three Gorges dam a decade ago; officials said it would play a vital role in taming a river which, when it flooded, often claimed hundreds or thousands of lives.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Three Gorges New Energy, a unit of the country's top hydropower developer, plans to raise about 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) from new investors to develop its wind power business, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
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The artist's compositions are inspired by his fieldwork in rural areas throughout China's, where entire villages face forced relocation to make way for ambitious infrastructural projects such as the Three Gorges Dam, and where climate change has compromised the natural environment.
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Safety experts with the government-run China Three Gorges Corporation said on its official website that the Yangtze River dam had moved a few millimeters due to temperature and water level changes, but safety indicators remained well within their normal range.
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Because of Hocking Hills's unique topography of cliffs, gorges and rivers, its climate is a vestige of an era when glaciers had just begun to recede, and trees such as the Eastern hemlock, the Canada yew and the mountain laurel dominated.
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HELL'S GATE NATIONAL PARK, Kenya — Verdant hills stretch into the distance at Hell's Gate National Park, where zebras, buffalos, antelopes, baboons and other wildlife roam an idyllic landscape of forests, gorges and grassy volcanoes near the shores of Lake Naivasha.
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LISBON (Reuters) - EDP-Energias de Portugal will remain under normal management without limitations usually imposed by takeover rules because these do not apply to the bid by the state-owned, unlisted entity China Three Gorges, market regulator CMVM said on Friday.
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Colorado's best opportunity came late in the third period; following high-sticking penalties on Buffalo's Zemgus Girgensons and Josh Gorges, the Avalanche had a four-minute power play at 11:37 that included a 103-on-3 advantage for two minutes.
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"The mist-shrouded Three Gorges are just as impressive, but the overall experience goes much deeper into the panoramic vistas and traditions of the region and its people with new excursions and unique on-shore entertainment," Greenman wrote in a statement.
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One item on the agenda was building the Three Gorges Dam, a massive flood-control and hydropower project on the Yangtze River that would create a vast inland lake and destroy villages and cultural relics for scores of miles upstream.
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Recent deals include China Three Gorges' acquisition of Blackstone-backed German offshore wind park Meerwind and Chinese investment firm Creat Group Corporation's purchase of British biotech firm Bio Products Laboratories (BPL) from Bain Capital for 820 million pounds ($1.21 billion).
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Those short-listed are a consortium of General Electric and Power Construction Corporation of China, Salini Impregilo of Italy and a joint venture of Chinese firms Three Gorges Corporation, China International and Water Electric Corporation and China Gezhouba Group Company Ltd.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The Three Gorges and Gezhouba, two of China's top hydropower plants, have closed capacity by as much as two-thirds, state media said on Tuesday, as torrential rains across the south triggered drastic steps to ease pressure on the Yangtze River.
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Strict laws protect a park created at the heart of the mountain range, embracing many varied habitats, from alpine woods filled with snub-nosed monkeys to the parallel gorges down which thunder the headwaters of three great rivers, the Yangzi, Mekong and Salween.
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IOWA STATE 76, KANSAS STATE 63 Monte Morris scored 15 of his 19 points in the second half, Gorges Niang added 15 points, and No. 17 Iowa State (13-13, 2-3 Big 12) won at Kansas State (11-6, 1-4).
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LISBON (Reuters) - EDP-Energias de Portugal sees merits in the plans of suitor China Three Gorges (CTG), it said on Saturday, signaling it may be open to an improved offer after rejecting a 9 billion euro ($10.6 billion) takeover proposal as too low.
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With just 21 hectares on the edge of Asia's longest river, Muhe lost half its territory to make way for the colossal Three Gorges Project, a 2238-metre dam and 2177.24-kilometre reservoir designed to control flooding, aid navigation and generate electricity.
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With just 21 hectares on the edge of Asia's longest river, Muhe lost half its territory to make way for the colossal Three Gorges Project, a 2238-metre dam and 2177.24-kilometre reservoir designed to control flooding, aid navigation and generate electricity.
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To him, Corsica was not the Vallée de la Restonica, a trail of gorges and glacial lakes reaching 3,840 feet that is popular with hikers; nor was it the glittering coastal cities of Calvi or Porto-Vecchio, with yachts docked in turquoise waters.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Shareholders of EDP-Energias de Portugal voted on Wednesday to effectively block a 9 billion euro ($10 billion) takeover bid by China Three Gorges (CTG), but the Portuguese utility said their partnership would continue, with a focus on Latin America.
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With just 110 hectares on the edge of Asia's longest river, Muhe lost half its territory to make way for the colossal Three Gorges Project, a 185-meter dam and 2177.24-kilometer reservoir designed to control flooding, aid navigation and generate electricity.
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She's been able to ask gently prodding questions that get locals rethinking about space here—her project, A Long Wait , on Casco Bay's Fort Gorges was a gorgeous contemplation on time and purpose—and it's exciting to undertake those investigations with her.
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KATHMANDU, May 21 (Reuters) - Nepal's government said on Tuesday it will build a 2500 megawatt hydroelectric plant that was earlier cleared to be developed by China's state-owned Three Gorges International Corp, in a surprise announcement made while laying out the annual budget.
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He gorges on single-malt Scotch in Las Vegas, swallows a dozen pints of ale in a series of English pubs, binges on tequila and collapses beside a cactus near the Mexican border, wears lederhosen to a German beer festival and so forth.
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China Three Gorges, the French company Engie, Grupo Energia de Bogota and the US fund I Squared Capital are among possible rival bidders of Enel to buy assets U.S.-based Sempra Energy is selling in Chile and Peru, il Sole 24 said.
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The government also said it would create a special fund to finance the reconstruction of devastated villages and help support residents, in a thinly populated farming area that has also become increasingly reliant on tourists, drawn to its forest, gorges and river pools.
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LISBON, May 14 (Reuters) - State-owned power firm China Three Gorges launched its 9 billion euros ($10.8 billion) takeover offer for Portuguese utility EDP as a pre-emptive move, sensing that other prospective bidders were looking at the company, sources said on Monday.
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Made in the aftermath of her husband's sudden death, the series portrays Ithaca's prominent gorges (WalkingStick served on the art faculty at Cornell University at the time), juxtaposed with abstract panels featuring mysterious shadows of geometric shapes representative of the artist's grief.
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She's been able to ask gently prodding questions that get locals rethinking about space here—her project, A Long Wait , on Casco Bay's Fort Gorges was a gorgeous contemplation on time and purpose—and it's exciting to undertake those investigations with her.
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The Three Gorges Dam displaced more than one million people along the Yangtze River, for example, and the middle route of the gargantuan South-North Water Diversion Project has resulted in the relocation of 350,000 people to make way for a series of canals.
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"There are multiple opportunities and potential purchases that we are analyzing ... we want to become a relevant player," Li Yinsheng, the chief executive officer of the local unit of Three Gorges, the world's largest hydroelectric power producer, told Reuters in an interview, without elaborating.
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It comes from running a vast country with more than 12,000 miles (18,400km) of bullet-train track where America has none, and a dam at the Yangzi river's Three Gorges which is nearly as tall as the Hoover Dam and six times its length.
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LISBON, May 18 (Reuters) - Norges Bank, which manages Norway's sovereign wealth fund, increased its stake in Portuguese utility EDP-Energias de Portugal May 14 after China Three Gorges announced a 9 billion euro ($13 billion) takeover bid for the company, EDP said in a statement.
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ET, MSG-B (Buffalo), CSN Mid-Atlantic (Washington) ABOUT THE SABRES (20-20-23): With Josh Gorges expected to miss an undetermined number of weeks with a non-displaced fracture in his foot, Buffalo hopes to get back another defenseman in the very near future.
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There, at Glen Canyon Dam, the river is turned back on itself, drowning more than 2124 miles of plasma-red gorges and replacing the Colorado's free-spirited rapids with an immense lake of flat, still water called Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reserve.
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LISBON, March 13 (Reuters) - Activist investor Elliott called on Thursday for shareholders in EDP-Energias de Portugal to reject a reform of voting rights, in a move that could scupper a 9-billion-euro ($10 billion) takeover offer for EDP from China Three Gorges (CTG).
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LISBON, May 23 (Reuters) - Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Wednesday that a change in the country's takeover law last year had nothing to do with a subsequent bid by China Three Gorges for utility Energias de Portugal (EDP), the country's biggest company.
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Wherever you go in Armenia, you are journeying through an open-air museum where churches and monasteries, even a Hellenic temple, are built into the cliffs or perched at the edges of canyons or green gorges, with searing vistas framed by the ever-blue sky.
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LONDON/BRUSSELS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - China Three Gorges halted talks with EU regulators about its proposed 9 billion euro ($10.3 billion) takeover of Portugal's EDP-Energia de Portugal over a month ago, two sources close to the matter said, casting doubt on whether the deal will progress.
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LISBON (Reuters) - China Three Gorges will not change the terms of its takeover bid for EDP-Energias de Portugal utility, the company said on Monday, meaning that if shareholders reject a voting rights reform at their meeting on Wednesday the $10 billion bid will be scuppered.
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China has produced engineering coups like the world's highest railway, from Qinghai Province to Lhasa, Tibet; the world's largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges Dam; and an 800-mile canal from the Yangtze River system to Beijing that is part of the world's biggest water transfer project.
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State Grid Corp, China Three Gorges Corp and Italy's Enel have placed bids for a 16 percent stake in Brazilian renewable energy company Renova Energia SA, which needs fresh capital following a failed asset sale last year, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
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State-owned China Three Gorges last month launched a 9 billion euro bid to take over both EDP and EDPR, offering 3.26 euros a share and 7.33 euros a share respectively - both of which were rejected by the Portuguese utility as not reflecting the value of the company.
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And while Trump's most fervent supporters in the hard right are preparing for End Times with chemical-free freeze-dried and other pseudo organics, their man gorges himself on Big Macs and slabs of well-done steaks and tries to keep the rest of us in the dark.
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Domingos Xavier Viegas, a fire expert who is a professor at the University of Coimbra, said the speed of the fire's progression suggested that it had started simultaneously in different places and that its advance was probably aided by the gorges and ravines that cut through the area's terrain.
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The flood-prone Yangtze river, which runs from Yunnan in the southwest to Jiangsu and Shanghai on the east coast, has seen a massive increase in water volumes, causing flooding in many of its tributaries and bringing water volumes in the giant Three Gorges reservoir close to record levels.
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As few as 20 adults still roam the mountains and alpine forests of the south-west Balkans, and the only place they are known to breed is the Mavrovo National Park -- an area famed for its gorges, meadows and dramatic waterfalls, which straddles North Macedonia's border with Albania and Kosovo.
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In 2000 another academic at Tsinghua, Zhang Guangduo (who had done the environmental feasibility studies for the dam), told the man in charge of building the barrier that "perhaps you know that the flood-control capacity of the Three Gorges Project is smaller than declared by us," according to leaked documents.
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Sources told Reuters last month that Chinese utility China Three Gorges (CTG), which is bidding to take control of Portuguese utility EDP, has held talks with European utilities to gauge interest in buying the U.S assets of EDP's renewables unit EDPR, as it fears the U.S. will object to Chinese ownership.
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