TVA

American

tax on value added: a sales tax imposed by member nations of the Common Market on imports from the U.S. and other countries.
U.S. Government. Tennessee Valley Authority: a three-member board, created in 1933, charged with developing the Tennessee River and its tributaries to promote their use for inexpensive electric power, irrigation, flood control, navigation, etc. Since 1933 many projects have been constructed, including numerous dams.

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Her daughter, Sarah Lépine, told local broadcaster TVA Nouvelles on Monday she was seated behind the pilots when the plane landed.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

The TVA owns property there at a site known as the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

A September survey by polling firm Leger, commissioned by media outlets Le Journal de Montréal and TVA, indicated that 68% of respondents thought secularism was an important value.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

Its revenues come from its customers paying TVA for what they use—exactly as airlines and business jets do worldwide with ATC utilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

There he had to battle wealthy and influential utility magnates hoping to throttle the TVA at birth.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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