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DTE Energy is a diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. DTE Electric distributes electricity to some 2.3 million customers in southeastern Michigan. The company's DTE Gas unit distributes natural gas to 1.3 million customers throughout Michigan. DTE Energy runs DTE Vantage (formerly power & industrial operations), and energy trading. The company was founded by Lemuel Davis, a gas engineer from Philadelphia that took on the challenge of organizing a company and securing local financing in 1849.

He accused bureaucrats of dragging their feet: \"You can't make excuses when there is money pouring down the drain.'' Mr [Richard Abbott] chastised public sector managers for hiring expensive private advisers previously commissioned by other government bodies to provide the same information. The cost of government departments and bodies using outside consultancies is thought to be about pounds 2 billion. In a message to public sector procurement managers in an OGC newsletter, Mr Abbott delivered a blunt message to \"up the pace'' of efforts to save money. \"It is difficult and only going to get more so, therefore we need to get on with it,'' he said. Mr Abbott said of the pounds 8 billion target: \"Don't tell me you can't do it, you can't make excuses when there is money pouring down the drain.''

Insp [Richard Abbott] said: \"Speeding is an obvious addition to the list of offences we are looking for - it is a factor in a very high proportion of road accidents. Insp Abbott said going too fast in towns had a lot in common with using mobile phones at the wheel in that it was a gamble on avoiding penalties and with other people's lives. Insp Abbott said: \"In some cases officers will use their discretion and feel that a friendly word of advice is the best resolution. But I expect penalty tickets to be the most likely option, with even tougher penalties in reserve for the most serious offenders.\"

Dr Richard Abbott, of Shadforth Close, Peterlee, County Durham, employed the person ( who is known only as \"family member X\" for legal reasons ( as a filing clerk at his surgery in Station Road, Shotton Colliery, in 2002. The GMC alleges Dr Abbott failed to tell the police when he found the tablets in his relative's bag. It is also alleged he failed to set up an internal inquiry into the fraud, investigate whether the welfare of his patients had been affected or tell his partner Dr [Ambalal Patel]. Dr Abbott has worked as a GP in the Station Road surgery and in branch surgeries in Peterlee and Haswell for many years. Dr Roger Bolas, chief executive of Easington Primary Care Trust, said: \"The Primary Care Trust, Dr Abbott and the practice fully co- operated with the police throughout their investigation. Easington PCT takes the issue of prescription fraud extremely seriously.

Hutt St traders are furious at an Adelaide City Council installation of car park ticketing machines along the street and former Hutt St Precinct Association president and long-time resident Richard Abbott yesterday posed topless in a protest he described as \"an ugly statement similar to the council's\". The council's general manager of city services, Justin Lynch, defended the machines as a \"necessary evil\" and said it had become difficult for people to find parking on the busy street. The council did not want to use ticketing machines, but said it was the only low- cost option until a better solution, such as an off-street parking area, was found.

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A POLICE operation to catch cyclists and motorists who break the law has resulted in nearly 10,000 worth of fines being issued.Operation Causeway was launched by North Yorkshire Police in York in October to tackle cyclists riding on footpaths or at night without lights, and drivers who used hands-free phones while driving, failed to wear seatbelts or use the correct child restraints.Throughout October, the public were warned of these...

SWIMMERS around the coasts of Wales have encountered some strange creatures enjoying the unusually warm weather - including sunbathing fish. RSPCA inspector Richard Abbott has received several reports of various subtropical fish off the Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion coasts, and as a keen diver, has spotted five sunfish among other species this week.

[Richard Abbott] joined CP in 1964 and stayed for two years before trying his hand at public relations for Consolidated-Bathurst and Domtar Ltd. before rejoining CP in 1974. He stayed until his retirement in 1992. \"He was a very private man but his intelligence, gentleness, dry wit and inherent goodness always shone through,\" said Felicity Munn, who worked with Abbott at CP. Abbott is survived by niece Katherine Cooke, of Sandpoint, Idaho, and nephews Mark Pugh of Belize and David Pugh of Greenville, S.C.

The last new species to be discovered in Britain was a cousin, the Welsh groundsel, which was identified in the 1940s. Prior to that the grass, Spartina anglica - used to stabilise esturine mud - was discovered on mudflats in Southampton Water. Dr [Richard Abbott] said: \"At a time in Earth's history when animal and plant species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate, the discovery of the origin of a new plant species in Britain calls for a celebration as well as being of great scientific interest.\"