Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existing nine are New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas...
...more years, if it ever does. Its long and sometimes tumultuous development has been marked by runaway costs, faulty construction, mismanagement by the utilities that own it, and inadequate supervision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Earlier this month the three owners-Cincinnati Gas & Electric, Dayton Power & Light, and Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric-began to consider their options. Among them was the sobering possibility of abandoning the project. Such a move would turn Zimmer into nuclear America's biggest white elephant to date, and a woeful, if extreme, example of the quality-control problems besetting other nuclear projects around...
...financiers, vowing to "consider very carefully the implications of such a dramatic increase." The following day, however, Moody's Investors Service downgraded the ratings of the three utilities. Two other services, Standard & Poor's and Duff & Phelps, put the utilities on a credit watch. Fearful of bankruptcy, Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric and Dayton Power & Light have asked the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to rule on who would be liable for the $1.6 billion should the project collapse. Says Gerald Morgan, an analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities: "You have the three utilities fighting among themselves...
Brian K. Davis Columbus...
...Dorchester native Saturday moved from a Beacon Hill supermarket to a Black and Hispanic section of Dorchester, to Finnegan turf in West Roxbury, to a house party at a posh Mission Hill row house, and then to a dinner and dance at the Knights of Columbus in the predominantly Irish South...