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...Consumers' energy quandaries aren't just at the pumps, as Californians know well. Last week the West Coast was hit again with sporadic power blackouts, further testimony to a botched deregulation effort that failed to encourage adding capacity in that state. Sizzling temperatures last Monday saw rolling blackouts for 103,000 customers. On Tuesday blackouts affected 300,000 more. Movie theaters went dark. Restaurants closed. Traffic lights went kaput. State officials predict 34 more such days before the fall. And in a frightening report, consultants at McKinsey & Co. say there could be a blackout somewhere in California on every single...
...Jess Cagle: It?s hard to say exactly - a news blackout means that even people in the guild don?t know what?s going on. I do think it?s safe to say that there?s a lot of optimism at the moment (although that could change at any moment, any day) that the contract dispute will be settled...
...titanium Powerbook were launched with equal mystery and equal fanfare, six months apart. Both looked eminently cool when Jobs pulled back the veil. Yet the cube tanked tremendously, tearing a huge hole in Apple's year 2000 profits, while the Powerbook sold like lemonade during a rolling blackout, driving Apple to one of its best (and as far as Wall Street was concerned, most unexpected) quarter ever...
...rally, which featured two vigils and a march, began with a poetry reading from the Boston-based cooperative Blackout about rape...
...Hollywood experiences an entertainment blackout next fall, we can do little but sit back and hope for the best. In the meantime, well—Seinfeld reruns and Monday Night Football will have to suffice...