Word: deal
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Cheap Power. Key to the state-sponsored scheme is a special deal to pro vide the plants with cheap power. Each company will build its own smelter and invest jointly with the government in a power plant. The government will contribute 30-year loans totaling $149 million to cover the investment in the power stations and will charge the companies special low rates for the electricity they...
...Tinto will build its 112,000-ton smelter on the Welsh island of Anglesey at Holyhead. As the "buying-in" price for a cheap power deal, it will in vest $79 million in the new Dungeness nuclear-power station in Kent. British Aluminium got the coveted site at Invergordon in the Highlands, the last undeveloped deep-water port in the United Kingdom. Its 112,000-ton smelter there will be fueled at the cheap rate in return for a $70 million investment...
Some of the most amusing but also pathetic entries deal with his efforts to be folksy and humbly ingratiating with voters who understood him probably even less than he understood them. He was equally at a loss when dealing with party hacks. "I feel like a cow being led garlanded to the altar," he noted, "and they probably regard me as a very doubtful old horse." He lost the election, of course, and when he returned to London, half-angry and half-shamed, he poured out his feelings in an article in the Spectator that alienated him from the Labor...
...work shirted old gentleman scratched his head when asked what he thought of Nixon's choice and replied, "Agnew huh? Now I remember. He was the guy gave Nixon some of those unexpected votes on Monday. I guess he made a pretty good deal for himself. Didn...
...delegates, meanwhile, justify their presence by talking to each other a good deal. This is not unlike what they would do at the local Elks or Rotary Club meeting, but here it is considered more important because they are all uncommitted or will be when their delegation is released from certain obligations, and they have the power to choose the next President of the United States (at political conventions, the candidate for such-and-such job is always referred to as so-and-so, the next such-and-such...