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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANCHESTER, N.H.--Public Service Company of New Hampshire, lead owner of the stalled Seabrook nuclear power plant, yesterday filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal Bankruptcy...
With $2.7 billion in assets, including $2.1 billion sunk into Seabrook, Public Service is the fourth-largest U.S. company ever to file under Chapter 11 and the first major investorowned utility to seek bankruptcy protection since the Depression...
...chapter of my thesis due tomorrow...
...overstates his satire of scholarship and art -- Chatterton's death by poison comes not out of despair but in the hope of finding a cure for the clap. Yet the poet himself is a poignant re-creation, and the supporting cast of irrepressible eccentrics might have tumbled from a chapter of Pickwick Papers. On a train, Wychwood literally devours a novel, rolling the pages into balls and popping them into his mouth...
Even in the era of corporate raiders, when almost any company smaller than General Motors is fair game, A.H. Robins seemed to be an unlikely target. The Richmond pharmaceutical firm has been bogged down in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings since 1985, and faces billions of dollars in claims from women who say they were injured by Robins' Dalkon Shield, a small plastic intrauterine birth-control device. Yet in the past few weeks suitors lined up as if Robins had discovered a cure for cancer. Two U.S. drug companies (Manhattan-based American Home Products and the Rorer Group of suburban Philadelphia...