Word: commissioner
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The City Council will hold a hearing April 30 to hear taxi drivers' complaints about a plan, recently approved by the city licensing commission, that would allow cab companies to lease taxis to drivers.
In the dawn of the nuclear age, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss predicted in 1954 that atomic fission would produce electricity so abundantly and cheaply that it would not have to be metered: the American people could just pay a low monthly charge and use as much as...
One reason is that electric power demand is growing much more slowly than it had been in the 1960s and early 1970s. Another is that nuclear construction costs have risen to about $1,000 a kilowatt, from $100 in the 1960s. This compares with $700 for a coal-fired plant...
The companies that get into the headlines for foreign bribes are usually large multinationals with far-flung operations and sales in the billions. But right near the top of the list of the 527 U.S. firms that the Securities and Exchange Commission has cited for improper payments is International Systems...
When war broke out after the sinking of the Maine, Roosevelt demanded a commission, explaining that he could not urge others to go to war unless he himself was willing to fight. Helpless without his glasses but ever anxious to assert his manhood, he headed the victorious Rough Riders, a...