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There?s a new "white knight" for the damsel in distress that is Enron. Oak Brook, Ill.-based power-plant developer Standard Power and Light wants to buy Enron for less than $1 a share (about what it?s trading at right now). But the company might want to proceed cautiously - look what happened to Dynergy, Enron?s last would-be savior. As Enron filed for the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history, it sued Dynegy for "not less than" $10 billion, charging them with using disingenuous merger talks to "put an end to Enron as a competitive force...
Chiou and Wan entered the finals having defeated the Rutgers duo of Brook Demming and Kevin Beilin in a come-from-behind 9-7 victory...
...event included faculty from the coalition’s 62 member schools, and was intended to focus lawmakers on the need for additional funding of science endeavors. Presidents from Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, MIT, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook attended in addition to Summers...
...burners. Green Mountain scored a big victory in February, when an energy-buying aggregate in northeastern Ohio handed over more than 400,000 customers. "It's attractive that Green Mountain has some different energy sources, but that wasn't the paramount issue," says Thomas J. Coyne Jr., mayor of Brook Park, Ohio. "The bottom line is, How do we save the most money for the customers?" Green Mountain beat competitors by 1% to 3%; the buyers' aggregate allowed the company to reduce marketing costs and therefore the retail price...
...decries "all the ugliness we see on cnn," but is happy to hawk his goods through the television shopping channel qvc. He laments the disintegration of the small-town community in favor of suburban culture, but has licensed his name to a new suburban development, the Village at Hidden Brook, in Vallejo, California, that is being constructed to conform to the vision presented in his works. He is also a savvy businessman. His title at MAGI is simply Artistic Director and Co-Founder, but his stake in the company is about 25%. His attempt earlier this year to buy back...