Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diamond estimated that Con Ed had already sunk about $20 million into the court battle over Storm King, and would have to spend between $300 million and $500 million more to complete the project...
...Con Ed has eliminated the Storm King plant from its ten-year plan, and has found other ways to generate the power which they said ten years ago would be difficult or impossible to provide without the Storm King project. The reason they continue to press for the project. Diamond speculated, has now become a desire not to lose face...
Consolidated Edison, of course, has another version. "We still want the project and feel that it is necessary," said Roy Wallace, a Con Ed public information officer. The reason the project has been dropped from the ten-year plan, Wallace said, is that it's future is up in the air because of the court battles...
Diamond of Scenic Hudson said the project would also be quite profitable for Con Ed, but maintained that it is not necessary...
...hopes for Harvard action in the matter will be realized. While Zimmerman said the plot in question had been "denuded by early settlers, but has now returned to the state of primeval forest." Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said that to his understanding, the portion Con Ed would need has "no research value and is poor horticulturally...