Word: conning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second term, also began searching for someone to blame. Without bothering to wait for the verdict of investigations ordered by himself, Governor Hugh Carey and President Carter, the mayor quickly zeroed in on Consolidated Edison Co., the company that New Yorkers love to hate (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Declared Beanie: "Con Ed's performance is, at the very best, gross negligence?and, at the worst, far more serious." Responded Con Ed Chairman Charles Luce: "It's a little like saying, 'We'll have a fair trial before we hang the defendant...
...Canada, New York's embattled Consolidated Edison Co. (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) not only has its own electrical generating plants but is plugged into a larger regional pool of power producers. Depending on the electricity needs of its 9 million customers in New York City and neighboring Westchester County, Con Ed can either 1) rely largely on its own generators, or 2) buy power from neighboring utilities if the load-or demand from its users-is high, or 3) sell off surplus electricity to other companies. Yet those choices are complicated by another fact: electrical energy cannot economically be stored...
...night of the blackout, the New York metropolitan area was sweltering under a blanket of hot, humid air. With air conditioners whirring everywhere and electrical load high-though still far below the levels expected later this summer-Con Ed was importing from neighboring utilities about one-third of the electricity it was delivering to its customers. That in itself was not unusual. In the battle to keep its rates from soaring even higher. Con Ed has lately been buying more and more electricity from nearby companies that can provide cheaper power. Yet what made Con Ed especially vulnerable that soggy...
...Francine con ceives an exasperated fondness for him, gets him a job in the road band she works for, and eventually marries...
They were, of course, the actions of a sublime con artist with a natural instinct for media hype. Ali has it all - humor, anger both real and feigned, a delicious imagination. He understands that the greatest con artists have always winkingly allowed the audience in on their joke. The Greatest is not a biography but another incident in a biography still to be written. As long as one appreciates that it is really the latest flurry in that blizzard-like snow job Ali has huffed and puffed to keep blowing for well over a decade, then one relaxes cheerfully into...