Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edison is the once imperious power utility that New Yorkers used to call "the company you love to hate." Now it is so beset that even Karl Marx might shed crocodile tears. Crippled by failing machinery, blocked by conservationists in its plans to build allegedly dangerous nuclear power plants, Con Ed can barely meet the city's ever rising power demands...
Last summer the company staged several voltage-cutting "brownouts." Girding for another nervous summer, Con Ed Chairman Charles F. Luce last week rejected the notion that troubled companies need more business. Luce has dropped all Con Ed sales promotion, which had boosted the percentage of new electrically heated housing units in the New York area from 5% to 30%. Con Ed will continue to spend about $1,000,000 a year for advertising-but it will use some of that money to urge New Yorkers to use as little electricity as possible...
...prayerbook, containing 22 miniatures on vellum that Mi-chelino painted sometime around 1420. John Plummer, the Morgan's curator of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, compares his new treasure with such supreme achievements of manuscript painting as the Tres Riches Heures of the Due de Berry. Michelino's con-'emporaries in Milan could well have agreed: one of them called him "the most excellent of all the painters in the world," which, even allowing for the ritual hyberbole of renaissance prose, is still a startling tribute...
...hope to provide something constructive instead of what happened last time," Hengen said. "We are strongly convinced of the right of YAF to stage such an event but we cannot allow them to portray the Harvard community to the outside world as in any way con-doning the policies of these speakers," he said...
...attorneys, Phil Hirschkopf and Ray Twohig, came to advise us: "The main problem will be the loss of communication... if you want to stay in jail, don't take in more than ten dollars-that's what collateral will probably be... the greatest con men in the world are the con men in prison, so don't take in anything you don't want to lose . . . you minister types will have to resist the temptation to try to convert everyone... drink plenty of liquids, or they may give you intravenous feeding... women, expect a vaginal inspection...