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...citizens' calls for help. But His Honor, who at 71 is running hard for a 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...
Like other major utilities in the U.S. and 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...
...Area power plant, met with opposition, but most were implemented in one way or another. And Champion, unlike two of Bok's other V.P.'s, had no major blots on his record. Yes, the power plant plan caused an unlikely alliance of opposition between Roxbury residents and the Boston Edison Company, but it is being built. Charles U. Daly, Bok's first vice president for government and community affairs, lost the Kennedy Library to UMass-Boston despite his long ties to the Kennedy family and his one-time post in the Kennedy White House. Steven S.J. Hall, Bok's first...
...public as well as to science. What the public does with them is the responsibility of society as a whole. It is as absurd to blame scientists as it is to praise them for social phenomena. If we pursued that form of logic, we would find ourselves making Thomas Edison a national hero for describing the nature of electricity, and then trying him posthumously for the deaths of all people who were ever electrocuted...
Carla Hills, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, will do some teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and has also signed on as a director of both IBM and Southern California Edison. But her husband, Roderick, is hanging on as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission until April 1, so the Hillses are putting off a decision on whether to return to the Los Angeles law firm that they founded 15 years ago. Says Stanley Pottinger, who is remaining at the Justice Department for a few months to wind up his investigation of past abuses...