Word: corps
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...saddled with high-cost plants, particularly nuclear facilities, just as lower-cost competitors are moving in. So high-cost outfits like Boston Edison and the New England Electric System in Massachusetts are selling off their generating plants to deliver power produced by other companies. Brash newcomers such as Enron Corp. of Houston, one of the country's largest distributors of natural gas, are buying megawatts of electricity on the open market and selling them around the country. It's called wheeling...
...forging new alliances. Just last week two U.S. companies, Public Service Co. of Colorado and American Electric Power Co. of Ohio, joined forces for a $2.4 billion purchase of Yorkshire Electricity Group of Britain, another country that is deregulating electricity. There they'll find Central and South West Corp., a Texas-based utility that now has operations in Britain. "We were a highly integrated, lumbering utility," says ceo E.R. Brooks of the bold expansion. "We might as well face the future...
Starbucks Corp. met the bill, agreeing also to preserve the historic character of the building--the site of Cambridge's first jail...
Believed to be the 10th richest man in China, Yung has been well rewarded for his efforts on behalf of Beijing. Last summer Yung brokered a deal between British conglomerate Swire Pacific and the China National Aviation Corp., owned by Beijing's aviation authority. CNAC was set to launch an airline to rival Swire's Cathay Pacific; Yung prodded the British firm instead to sell the mainland intruder a controlling share in Cathay's regional DragonAir. In January, CITIC Pacific paid $2.1 billion for 20% of Hong Kong's British-controlled electricity company. Beijing denied this was the next step...
...antenna, customers could select a package of channels dedicated to specific topics like weather, sports or opera, or receive up-to-the-minute stock quotes for their car radio. Despite the risk involved, four companies are ready to take the plunge. CD Radio of Washington, D.C., American Mobile Satellite Corp. of Reston, VA, Digital Satellite Broadcasting of Seattle and Primosphere of New York have all received FCC go-ahead to bid on licenses to provide the digital service...